Optimist Quotes · Page 22

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

— George Bernard Shaw

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

— Mark Twain

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

— Jean de La Fontaine

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

— William Arthur Ward

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've…

— Jude Law

I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life.

— Ricky Schroder

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

— Yuval Noah Harari

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

— Howard Gardner

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

— Tom Petty

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.…

— Harvey Mackay

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

— Harold Wilson

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

— John Sculley

I really am a cockeyed optimist.

— Vicki Lawrence

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't…

— Yvon Chouinard

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks…

— Randy Pausch

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've…

— Anonymous

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn…

— Amy Dickinson

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

— Sarah McLachlan

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal…

— Jim Valvano

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel…

— Sydney J. Harris

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

— Janet Fitch

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

— Thomas Buckner