Optimist Quotes

362 quotes by 270 authors

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. — Arthur C. Clarke
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Khalil Gibran
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you… — Thomas Friedman
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. — Randy Pausch
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too… — Daniel Handler
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. — William Arthur Ward
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. — Laurell K. Hamilton
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. — Cornel West
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to… — Emile M. Cioran
You are such an optimist. My Spidey-sense is tingling all over the place. (Tory) Thatâ€™s from eating the ice cream. Relax. (Acheron) Relax. Trust me.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish… — Margaret Atwood
Where you think Iâ€™m goan?â€™ â€˜Well,â€™ Eddie said, â€˜what was behind Door Number One wasnâ€™t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was… — Stephen King
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? — Barbara Mertz

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