Optimist Quotes · Page 18

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.

— Wes Fesler

“Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.”

— Terry Pratchett

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

— Edmond Rostand

An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

— Heinz Ruhmann

“I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”

— Tiffany Reisz

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

— Mamie Gummer

That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

— Mark Twain

Dont be over optimist , its pretty limiting and unrealistic way to look at the world and can cause you a lot…

— Senoraroy

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an…

— Studs Terkel

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If…

— Edward Steichen

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am…

— Hans Hofmann

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and…

— Richard Lewontin

...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in…

— B. C. Forbes

“Meeting obstacles can be a blessing! Just know the lesson and change something with the lessons and you shall see a new…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed…

— Jacki Weaver

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I…

— Steve Jobs

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

— Martin Seligman

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

— Francois Guizot

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”

— Anthony Liccione

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a…

— Walt Disney

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

— Roberto Rossellini

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

— Viggo Mortensen

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

— Nathan Englander

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living…

— Timothy Keller

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

— Eric Sevareid

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

— Julius Genachowski

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

— Carlene Carter

I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully.

— Lucy Dacus

“To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.”

— Amit Kalantri

Failure yesterday, failure today, failure tomorrow, at least I am a success at being a pessimist.

— Vikrant Parsai

I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.

— Ian Gillan

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

— George Bernard Shaw

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

— Mark Twain

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

— Dennis Miller

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

— Alison Sudol

I'm a very optimistic, happy-go-lucky person, but I definitely know what I want and I'd do anything to get to that point.

— Fearne Cotton