I think being an optimist and getting things done is a way to wake up other people. — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. — Drake Copy Share Image
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went… — William Ury Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends,… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly,… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
