Optimist Quotes · Page 20

To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

— William Arthur Ward

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

— Daniel Hannan

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

— Alex Haley

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

— Ehud Barak

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

— William Golding

Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well.

— Senoraroy

I see myself as, one, an optimist, and two, a member of a huge family, and that's important to me.

— Andrea Leadsom

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesnt take his advice.

— John McCarthy

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad…

— Peter Ustinov

I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things…

— Lisa Joy

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try…

— Anonymous

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to…

— Ramez Naam

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents…

— Stephen Hawking

“Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up…

— Jarod Kintz

My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found…

— Stanislaw Lem

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be…

— Andrew Mellon

Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.

— Tinsley Mortimer

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic…

— Carlos Ghosn

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

— Earl Weaver

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

— Tom Bodett

“Look at me being all optimistic and shit. Remy would be so proud.”

— Jay Crownover

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came…

— Phil Anselmo

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

— Ray Farabee

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one…

— Bill Vaughan

There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...

— Nelson Mandela

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

— Oscar Wilde

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

— Don Marquis

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

— Anonymous

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money…

— Zig Ziglar

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be…

— David Attenborough

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

— John McCarthy

The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty...

— Pacifiersucker

The pessimist says It can't be done. The optimist says It can be done. But the enthusiastic just says I just did…

— Anonymous

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

— Leni Riefenstahl

I'm to positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful and to determinate to be defeated…

— Anonymous

I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.

— John Lithgow

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

— Rudy Giuliani

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

— Brad Feld