When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard 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
How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller 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
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one… — Victor Cherbuliez Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. — William Arthur Ward 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
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — Jack Kerouac 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
