“Wissen Sie, was ein Optimist ist? Jemand, der nicht an die Zukunft glaubt.” — Georg Schramm Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed. — Jerry Greenfield Copy Share Image
I think I'm relentlessly optimistic. That's my way of willing something to be good. — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than… — John Ritter Copy Share Image
“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
