Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air — Gunnar Staalesen Copy Share Image
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that… — Hasan Minhaj 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
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
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott 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
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends,… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian 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
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
