Optimist Quotes · Page 16

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

— Louise Imogen Guiney

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

— Anonymous

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

— Julia Mancuso

It may be the antidepressants talking, but I'm feeling somewhat optimistic about 2014.

— Anonymous

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half…

— Jack Nicholson

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

— Vladimir Bukovsky

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

— Aziz Ansari

“There may be clouds in the sky, and rain may be falling, but this doesn't mean the sun has stopped shining.”

— Connor Chalfant

“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions,…

— J.D. Salinger

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable…

— Brian Eno

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to…

— Leymah Gbowee

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to…

— Albert Camus

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I…

— John Grant

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there…

— Kim Cattrall

I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because…

— Maggie Tabberer

I am a very optimistic person. I don't know if it is because I've come up right from the bottom, but I…

— David Villa

Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…

— Martin Seligman

You can be an optimist, but you can also not be okay, you know, at certain points in time.

— Cynthia Germanotta

“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go…

— Adam P. Knave

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

— Caroline Ghosn

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

— Robert Collier

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

— Bernie Sanders

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

— Liz Truss

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs…

— Alex Zanardi

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

— William Golding

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

— Thomas Friedman

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

— Mark Twain

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

— Jerry Greenfield

I think I'm relentlessly optimistic. That's my way of willing something to be good.

— Julio Torres

“You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

— Patrick Stewart

“Wissen Sie, was ein Optimist ist? Jemand, der nicht an die Zukunft glaubt.”

— Georg Schramm

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

— Robert Breault

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

— Mason Cooley

I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

— Drake