I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested... — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. — Ray Farabee Copy Share Image
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a… — Anonymous 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
“The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That's how a Donald Trump can get through. He has… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
