Optimist Quotes · Page 5

I'm a real optimist.

— Barbara Sukowa

I'm very pessimistic.

— B. F. Skinner

I'm rarely optimistic.

— Paul Singer

I'm optimistic by nature.

— Ivan Perisic

Let optimists rule the world.

— Lauryn Hill

Maybe I'm actually an optimist.

— Pete Doherty

I am a hopeless optimist.

— Jodi Balfour

I am basically optimistic.

— Dalai Lama

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

— Eric Fellner

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

— Tim Berners-Lee

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

— Jonathan Evison

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

— Harold Wilson

I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.

— Julia Roberts

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

— Paul Fussell

I'm a very positive person in my life. I'm very optimistic.

— Cody Fern

I am to positive to be doubtful too optimistic too be fearful and too determined too be defeated

— Anonymous

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

— Thomas Buckner

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

— Irv Kupcinet

“My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.”

— Scott Adams

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

— Alain de Botton

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

— Simon Sinek

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

— Ron Silver

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window…

— John McGahern

“I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just…

— Hans Rosling

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my…

— Samantha Hunt

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled…

— Henry Rollins

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel…

— Sydney J. Harris

I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.…

— William Lyon Phelps

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what…

— Jamie Dimon

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the…

— Cornel West

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he…

— Jack Kerouac

“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going…

— Eudora Welty

Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there…

— Margrethe Vestager

Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door…

— Stephen King