Optimist Quotes · Page 19

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

— Anonymous

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

— William Arthur Ward

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

— Dane Cook

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

— Will Rogers

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

— Alain de Botton

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

— Thomas Buckner

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

— Irv Kupcinet

“My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.”

— Scott Adams

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or…

— Domhnall Gleeson

“No, indeed. I’m an optimist. Or is it called crazy when a person keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different…

— Sherryl Woods

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list,…

— Phyllis McGinley

“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.”

— C. JoyBell C

“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will…

— Anonymous

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to…

— Robert J. Sawyer

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large…

— Christian D. Larson

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to…

— Tamar Myers

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff,…

— Amanda Holden

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

— Helen Keller

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

— Anonymous

“The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.”

— Paulo Coelho

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

— Kin Hubbard

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

— George Santayana

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

— Taylor Swift

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

— Henry Rollins

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

— Colin Mochrie

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a…

— Clay Aiken

I try to make the best out of every possible situation. Also, I'm an eternal optimist.

— John Havlicek

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

— Carl Rogers

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

— Julia Davis

I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have.

— Zeenat Aman

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

— Peter Ustinov

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

— Stephen Hawking

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

— Philippe Cousteau, Jr

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

— Roger Scruton

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

— Robert Breault

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

— Lesslie Newbigin

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

— William Arthur Ward

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

— John Wooden

I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the…

— Ryan Lochte

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

— Thomas Friedman