Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
“The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.” — Philip Littell Copy Share Image
“Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.” — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“Optimists say, "The rainfall makes nature's colors more vivid." But the skies must darken, too.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast,… — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
My husband and my son are both such positive-thinking optimists. Together, they've succeeded in making me a bit like them. I am… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.” — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“the reason why pessimists are recruited among former optimists, since in order to have a black picture of the world it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“He never cared much, but he used to care a little. He's got worse." "That's what men do." "Not all of them."… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are… — David Landes Copy Share Image
“...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists." "I find that hard to believe" "Of course you do,… — Susin Nielsen Copy Share Image
“A handsome young lady of quality,' a parable in Mahaparinirvana-sutra tells us, 'who carries with her an immense treasure is ever accompanied… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I do not propose to solve the Israeli-Palestine conflict. But I do think the world would be a vastly safer place -… — Thomas Chatterton Williams 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
“Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think… — Fredrik Backman 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
