Optimist Quotes · Page 22

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

“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

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

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

— Scott Adams

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis…

— Vinton Cerf

I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope…

— Mat Kearney

Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback,…

— Paul Tough

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that…

— Cat Stevens

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer…

— Edwin Morgan

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them…

— Anonymous

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of…

— Carrie Brownstein

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 am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

— Ben Feldman

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

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

— Mike Dirnt

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

— Denis Hayes

“Umit thought he was a perpetual winner. An Optimist; because he had survived every losses without complaining!”

— Raj Doctor

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

An Optimist Is A Person Who Starts A Crossword Puzzle With A Fountain Pen...

— Pacifiersucker

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

— Anonymous

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

— Mike Judge

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent…

— Tommy Chong

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

— Harvey Mackay

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

— Tyler, The Creator

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

— John Waters

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

— K'naan

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist

— Mark Twain

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

“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'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

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

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

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am…

— Vaclav Havel

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and…

— E. B. White

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick."…

— Brandon Sanderson