It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“When you concentrate much on the faults, you shall be at fault. When you always focus on the solutions, you shall always… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try"… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.' — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
You can be an optimist, but you can also not be okay, you know, at certain points in time. — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
“Use every person's skill set to the fullest. Both optimists and pessimists contribute. An optimist invents the hot air balloon, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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