Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
“In a study of new hire agents at MetLife, the optimists outsold the pessimists by 31 percent.” — Jill Konrath Copy Share Image
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“Like all shopkeepers, they are deep-down optimists. They have to be, because every morning they unlock the doors to their stores, turn… — Robert Spector Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Life is not meant more for the pessimists but for the optimists who see life in every moment and feel every moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Optimists see the glass as half full. Pessimists see the glass as half empty. Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its… — Bogdan Vaida Copy Share Image
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Use every person's skill set to the fullest. Both optimists and pessimists contribute. An optimist invents the hot air balloon, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mirthful in appearance as if born optimists. There are also no… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard 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
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“As you rusticate, you'll encounter beauty and ugliness, peace and danger. But it will be real and of the earth. I'm an… — Linda Leaming Copy Share Image
“Neither these men of the world nor Buddhist ascetics can be optimists. The latter rigorously deny themselves sensual gratifications, and keep themselves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Finally, the optimist’s impatience with or condemnation of pessimism often has a smug macho tone to it (although males have no monopoly… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“There are different types of people in the world. There are people who accept what's in front of them unquestioningly. The live… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
