Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a…

“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are you an…

— Raoul Peck

“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”

— Paulo Coelho

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important…

— Thomas Buckner

A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

— Jim Rohn

“Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool.”

— Jay Asher

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more…

— Anonymous

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

— Lori Greiner

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

— Matt Lauer

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back

— Nateman

“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist,” Lesslie Newbigin once said. “Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.”

— Tim Chaddick

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 that everything's…

— Frances Moore Lappé

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

— Max Lerner

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

— Tom Bodett

I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

— Lesslie Newbigin