Optimist Quotes · Page 17

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

— Hal Elrod

“The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.”

— Bogdan Vaida

My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

— Rhys Darby

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

— Gretel Ehrlich

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

— Mary Meeker

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

— Viggo Mortensen

Both my wife and I are optimists and we look at the positives in life.

— Ben Fogle

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went…

— William Ury

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness…

— Anonymous

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and…

— Albert Schweitzer

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends…

— J. Oswald Sanders

“I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the…

— Ron Suskind

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can…

— Robert A. Heinlein

You can be a pessimist and say Life sucks or you can be a optimist and says Life gets better.

— Anonymous

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

— James Norton

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

— Ted Koppel

I think being an optimist and getting things done is a way to wake up other people.

— Michele Lamy

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

— Anonymous

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.

— Lewis Mumford

Ive got as much hope as the chances of a rain drop not hitting the ground

— Alyssa Herring

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

— Betty White

I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist.

— Violet Chachki

“Napier grinned. "I'm flattered." "I'm sure you are," Colt said. "You've always been optimistic in your interpretations.”

— Emory Sharplin

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

— Anonymous

I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

— Matt Mullenweg

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

— Anonymous

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

— Molly Ivins

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

— Chauncey Depew

“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

— Emilio Estevez

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

— Winston Churchill

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

— Barack Obama

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

— John Corey Whaley

“Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.”

— Noel DeJesus

“Okay, so I'm an optimist. My mother says I'm cock-eyed---but I don't think she means it like it sounds.”

— Chase Taylor Hackett

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

— Sloane Crosley

“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill