I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested... — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesnt take his advice. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett 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
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King 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
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack… — Oneohtrix Point Never 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
“Of course we here on earth (planet number one, the planet of inexperience) can only fabricate vague fantasies of what will happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You love somebody. Do you? What is love? You think you have everything, but you don’t have anything. You have to have… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
“As a lifetime optimist, my first tendency has always been to look for the best in others, the best in situations, and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had the smoothest life but somehow I’ve ended up an optimist. I figure if I keep believing Fate is good… — Catou Martine Copy Share Image
Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing… — Sarah Chamberlain 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
