The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always… — Joseph V. Angeles Copy Share Image
“He was, in his heart, an optimist, and he didn’t try to hide it. And I admired him for it. I was… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken… — Jeanette Lee Copy Share Image
“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a quality found in others. I am an optimist. I believe that saying the right thing will eventually cause people… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“They were well matched. Optimist and pessimist, dreamer and cynic. And what is love anyway, but finding someone who suits you? Someone… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak,… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
