Optimist Quotes · Page 21

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks…

— Randy Pausch

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

— Howard Gardner

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

— Criss Jami

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

— Armando Iannucci

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!'

— Anonymous

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

— Fritz Scholder

It may be the antidepressants talking, but I'm feeling somewhat optimistic about 2014.

— Anonymous

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

— Anonymous

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people…

— Madeleine Albright

Like anything in life, nothing is guaranteed but I'm certainly hopeful of the positive change that could come from the Black To…

— A. J. Odudu

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the…

— Helen Rowland

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are…

— David Landes

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try"…

— Stanislaw Ulam

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that…

— Julian Baggini

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe…

— Colin Beavan

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

— Julia Mancuso

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty”

— Merc

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

— Virgil Abloh

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

— William Arthur Ward

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

— James Branch Cabell

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

— Eugene Ionesco

I'm an optimist; I always believe that there must be something round the corner.

— Bez

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

— Liz Truss

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs…

— Alex Zanardi

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

— William Golding

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

— Bernie Sanders

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

— Robert Collier

You can be an optimist, but you can also not be okay, you know, at certain points in time.

— Cynthia Germanotta

“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go…

— Adam P. Knave

As a tech optimist, I believe productivity woes can be solved through cleverly imagined and implemented technology.

— Caroline Ghosn

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

— Aziz Ansari

“There may be clouds in the sky, and rain may be falling, but this doesn't mean the sun has stopped shining.”

— Connor Chalfant

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

— Vladimir Bukovsky

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half…

— Jack Nicholson

“Wissen Sie, was ein Optimist ist? Jemand, der nicht an die Zukunft glaubt.”

— Georg Schramm

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard