Optimist Quotes · Page 15

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

— Ellen Ullman

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

— Idries Shah

I know I sound overly optimistic, but you know me, I've always been an optimistic guy.

— Ron Rivera

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

— Elton John

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

— Laurence J. Peter

I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

— Meg Rosoff

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is…

— Ron Currie Jr

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.…

— Harvey Mackay

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…

— Michael Morpurgo

“So your task is not to transform into a superficial, sunny optimist. It is to grow to be an optimist by faith.…

— New Growth Press

“I tend to be a real optimist because I just find that pessimism is an indulgence and despair is kind of an…

— Wade Davis

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

— Anonymous

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother…

— Carol Burnett

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through…

— Graeme Base

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at…

— Bernard Malamud

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he…

— Jack Kerouac

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the…

— Cornel West

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what…

— Jamie Dimon

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:…

— Milan Kundera

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's…

— Margaret Atwood

“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing…

— Sarah Chamberlain

I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.

— Greg LeMond

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

— Shimon Peres

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

— Will Forte

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

— Helen Keller

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.

— Nateman

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

— Ken MacLeod

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

— Marilyn Manson

I love optimism but most times reality isn't all optimistic and sometimes we have to say things the way they appear to…

— Terry Mark

“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)”

— Saloma Miller Furlong

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

— Elon Musk

I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, too determined to be defeated and too blessed to be…

— Nishan Panwar

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

— Edward Abbey

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

— Al Gore

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

— Norman Foster