Optimist Quotes · Page 19

I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.

— Heather Brooke

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

— Gunnar Staalesen

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side

— Molly Ivins

“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.”

— Charles Martin

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

— Christian D. Larson

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

— Sandra Bullock

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

— Nick Bostrom

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

— Craig Venter

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to…

— Tom Scholz

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“With so many generous friends and family members from so many places for so many years, how could I not still be…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his…

— David Talbot

“My major flaw was that I was zealous optimist living in a world that possessed great potential to constantly disappoint.-Babette”

— Lisa-Scarlett Cruji

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down…

— Bernard Baruch

“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope…

— Ambrose Bierce

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead…

— Elif Safak

I'm dementedly optimistic, and whoever I'm with usually feels they have to balance my more wayward optimism.

— Alexander Armstrong

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

— George Meyer

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

— Albert Einstein

I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.

— Marc Randolph

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

— Steve Aylett

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

— Jean Rostand

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

— Winston Churchill

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're…

— Ted Danson

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

— Jacques Barzun

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”

— Karl Kraus

“If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism”

— J.M.Coetzee

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

— George Jean Nathan

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to…

— John Wooden

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

— Antonio Gramsci

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

— John Sculley

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip

— Anonymous

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

— Helen Keller

The pesimist says: it cannot get any worse. The optimist joyfully exclaims: yes, it can!

— Anonymous

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

— Helen Suzman

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

— Anonymous

“If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.”

— Germany Kent

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

— Rondal Partridge

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

— Narendra Modi