Optimist Quotes · Page 16

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

— Christian D. Larson

The optimistic things to do here in this world are to reflect, learn from our mistakes and try again.

— Senoraroy

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

— Will Rogers

I got some hope but I'm also realistic. I got some thoughts but nothing real prolific.

— Goldhouse

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to…

— Jordan Gavaris

“as far as a bottle of piss is concerned, are you more of an optimist if you think it’s halfempty?—and”

— Anonymous

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

— Ada Leverson

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Anonymous

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this…

— Ted Cruz

I think the best way to quickly describe my personality is that I'm a maximizer rather than a satisficer, i.e. I want…

— James Holzhauer

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a…

— Franz Grillparzer

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always…

— Howard Jacobson

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live…

— Christian D. Larson

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just…

— Hans Rosling

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's…

— Nelson Mandela

“Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those ……

— Joe Abercrombie

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

— Ellen Goodman

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

— Al Gore

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year…

— Anonymous

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

“Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool.”

— Jay Asher

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

— Walter Winchell

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

— Ouida

“If I have a pocket fun of rainbows am I an optimist, or a guy with wet pants and really large pockets?”

— Neil Leckman

I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

— Zig Ziglar

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

— Preston Manning

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

— Richard Jefferson

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

— Rene Descartes

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

— Nelson Mandela

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

— Kin Hubbard

“You can get what you want in life. You must reach out with all your heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

— Nick Cave

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

— Jesse Michaels

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

— Peter Benchley

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

— Karel Reisz

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

— Anonymous

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half…

— Josiah Stamp