There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. — Heinz Ruhmann Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different… — Les Wexner 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
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have… — Walter Cronkite 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
I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career… — Ron Santo Copy Share Image
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
