I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff,… — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think I'm a person that's very pessimistic about, like I'm not a luddite but I don't think we need to crack… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's… — Bruce Springsteen 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 don't think about growing old," she said. "I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice.… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber 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
“I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that… — David Agus Copy Share Image
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
You are such an optimist. My Spidey-sense is tingling all over the place. (Tory) That’s from eating the ice cream. Relax. (Acheron)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image