I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.” — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“I’m a pessimist of the human condition, as a rule, but contemplating the future and how the Carpenter kids could contribute to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If you have more good days than bad, you might be an optimist. If you roll out of bed in the morning… — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below).… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
