An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope. — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking. — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have. — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But love makes you an optimist", she said. "That is what love is. It is hope for the future. Love doesn't want… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of… — Anonymous 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
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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 often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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