Adventure Quote by B. C. Forbes

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw…

— B. C. Forbes

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

— James Branch Cabell

“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

— William J. Clinton

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in…

— Helen Keller

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

— Chaka Fattah

“Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater…

— Robert Barr

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

— John F. Kennedy

The fact that Americans do have this ingrained optimism, even against a lot of actual information about how things work, is not that bad…

— Brendan Hunt

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

— Anonymous

“The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.”

— Francois Guizot