I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“Pessimist, are you?” “I’m a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill 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'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'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
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
“I am an optimist! What a wonderful time it is to be alive, here at the turn of a milestone century! With… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, we live in a post-ideological world. That's how a Donald Trump can get through. He has… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
