Optimist Quotes · Page 12

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

— John Oliver

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

— Steve Tisch

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

I am by nature a worried optimist.

— Madeleine Albright

People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'

— Bill Bailey

I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.

— Anand Mahindra

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

— Ilhan Omar

I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best.

— Vaani Kapoor

I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves.

— George Clooney

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

— Rex Stout

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

— Matthieu Ricard

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

— Denis Waitley

We forget most of the times that life is not always a rose garden and no one promised us that it would…

— Senoraroy

I try to make the best out of every possible situation. Also, I'm an eternal optimist.

— John Havlicek

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

— Carl Rogers

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic…

— Anonymous

I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism…

— Brad Feld

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come…

— Brad Leithauser

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a…

— Franz Grillparzer

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this…

— Ted Cruz

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to…

— Anonymous

I think the best way to quickly describe my personality is that I'm a maximizer rather than a satisficer, i.e. I want…

— James Holzhauer

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live…

— Christian D. Larson

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well…

— Anonymous

All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

“When you concentrate much on the faults, you shall be at fault. When you always focus on the solutions, you shall always…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says…

— Louis Zamperini

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace…

— Criss Jami

I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that…

— Hasan Minhaj

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different…

— Les Wexner

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

— Philippe Cousteau, Jr

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

— Roger Scruton

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

— Robert Breault

I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have.

— Zeenat Aman

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

— Peter Ustinov

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

— Julia Davis

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

— Stephen Hawking

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

— Anonymous

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

— Kin Hubbard