Optimist Quotes · Page 13

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

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

— Paulo Coelho

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff,…

— Amanda Holden

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

— Helen Keller

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

— Henry Rollins

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

— Colin Mochrie

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

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always…

— Howard Jacobson

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

— Anonymous

“So your task is not to transform into a superficial, sunny optimist. It is to grow to be an optimist by faith.…

— New Growth Press

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through…

— Graeme Base

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother…

— Carol Burnett

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and…

— Helen Caldicott

I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest,…

— Terry Wogan

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 think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a…

— John Dos Passos

But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy…

— Eva Longoria

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about…

— Zig Ziglar

The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do…

— Jodi Picoult

My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's…

— Edward Kennedy

“underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty that had sustained him through the bad times—he thought…

— Terry Pratchett

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a…

— Clay Aiken

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

— George Santayana

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

— Taylor Swift

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

— Alice Herz-Sommer

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

— Diablo Cody

“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think…

— Amit Kalantri

“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!”

— Madeleine Urban

I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

— Rachael Yamagata

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

— William Arthur Ward

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

— Spike Lee

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

— Mark Twain

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

— Phyllis McGinley

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of…

— Sandra Bernhard

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

— Gord Downie

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

— Eduardo Galeano