When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I'm always sort of optimistic about how good we are, as a country, at fixing ourselves. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Be sure and confident that the world offers plenty of opportunities for everyone to succeed. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I believe in throwing a lot of positive energy in the universe and hope for the best. — Vaani Kapoor Copy Share Image
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Of all the pessimistic people, I am the most optimistic. I look forward to looking down on all the people looking up… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I'm a very optimistic person, woman, mother and singer. And at the same time, I'm very realistic when I look at other… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those …… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing… — Sarah Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
