Optimist Quotes · Page 14

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

— Kin Hubbard

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

— Nick Cave

“If I have a pocket fun of rainbows am I an optimist, or a guy with wet pants and really large pockets?”

— Neil Leckman

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

— Preston Manning

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

— Peter Benchley

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half…

— Josiah Stamp

“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”

— Matt Smith

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

— Ellen Goodman

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just…

— Hans Rosling

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in…

— Nina Fedoroff

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window…

— John McGahern

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's…

— Trent Reznor

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out…

— Mark Twain

“How To Reprimand A Cynical Optimist You can have your cake and eat it too but don't let me catch you five…

— Pamela August Russell

I'm an optimist. I removed the negative, cruel people from my world. It was easy: They stand out. Know there is still…

— Anonymous

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

— Al Gore

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to…

— Jordan Gavaris

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

— Ada Leverson

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

— Ouida

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

— Walter Winchell

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year…

— Anonymous

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist

— Mark Twain

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

— Harvey Mackay

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

— Tyler, The Creator

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Umit thought he was a perpetual winner. An Optimist; because he had survived every losses without complaining!”

— Raj Doctor

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent…

— Tommy Chong

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

— Mike Judge

An Optimist Is A Person Who Starts A Crossword Puzzle With A Fountain Pen...

— Pacifiersucker

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

— Anonymous

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

— Denis Hayes

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

— Ben Feldman

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

— Scott Adams

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

— Helen Suzman

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

— Anonymous

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

“If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.”

— Germany Kent