I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward 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 think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard 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
“He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
When I do look at myself, I see someone who is fundamentally optimistic. Quite a lot of what I do in my… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We must take time to put ourself to an activity that we enjoy, it gives us an opportunity to relax, refocus and… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal… — Jim Valvano Copy Share Image
Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched… — Sara Baume 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
Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
![“Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/steve-jobs-307_alternatives_stealing-things-is-everybody-s-problem-w_2741327.jpg)
