They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesnt take his advice. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“But love makes you an optimist", she said. "That is what love is. It is hope for the future. Love doesn't want… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“I don't think about growing old," she said. "I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice.… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“I am an optimist! What a wonderful time it is to be alive, here at the turn of a milestone century! With… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career… — Ron Santo Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
