Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. — Thomas Friedman 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
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency,… — Paul Tonko 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… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like to think of my people as mute optimists - leave the elephant alone and, eventually, perhaps with the help of… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti 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
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
“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
...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
“In a study of new hire agents at MetLife, the optimists outsold the pessimists by 31 percent.” — Jill Konrath Copy Share Image
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.” — Marilyn Suttle Copy Share Image
“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.” — Stanisław Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
