Optimist Quotes

362 quotes by 270 authors

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the… — Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. — Peter Ustinov
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. — Bill Vaughan
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. — Betty White
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways… — Jacki Weaver
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. — Walter Winchell
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the… — Julian Baggini
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward… — Nelson Mandela
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. — P.G. Wodehouse
The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. — Steve Aylett
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists… — Jose Saramago
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic. — Albert Schweitzer
I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. — Harold Wilson
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
Optimist â€“ A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. — Ambrose Bierce

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