The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I think being an optimist and getting things done is a way to wake up other people. — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
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