Optimist Quotes · Page 22

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

— Patrick Stewart

“You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I think I'm relentlessly optimistic. That's my way of willing something to be good.

— Julio Torres

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

— Thomas Friedman

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

— Jerry Greenfield

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

— Mark Twain

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

— Ted Koppel

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic…

— Anonymous

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and…

— Harvey Mackay

I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism…

— Brad Feld

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come…

— Brad Leithauser

Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast,…

— Bob Lewis

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over…

— Martin Seligman

I think being an optimist and getting things done is a way to wake up other people.

— Michele Lamy

An optimist is a person who takes action, who moves out ahead of the crowd.

— Anonymous

You can be a pessimist and say Life sucks or you can be a optimist and says Life gets better.

— Anonymous

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

— James Norton

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

— Gretel Ehrlich

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

— Mary Meeker

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

— Viggo Mortensen

Both my wife and I are optimists and we look at the positives in life.

— Ben Fogle

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

— Rhys Darby

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

— Mason Cooley

I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.

— Drake

“The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.”

— Bogdan Vaida

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.

— Hal Elrod

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.

— Robert Breault

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve…

— Germany Kent

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful…

— Helen Keller

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of…

— Mark Matousek

I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end…

— Laurel Nakadate

As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a…

— Margaret Hoover

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something,…

— Jesmyn Ward

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out…

— Anonymous