“Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But… — Joe Posnanski 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
We forget most of the times that life is not always a rose garden and no one promised us that it would… — Senoraroy 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
“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image