Optimist Quotes
362 quotes by 266 authors
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
— Karl Kraus
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
— Oscar Wilde
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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 sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
— Brandon Sanderson
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
— William Arthur Ward
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I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to…
— Eric Schmidt
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The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all…
— Jodi Picoult
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What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Optimists are happier in life for a reason.
— Brendon Burchard
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
— Idries Shah
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I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
— Nelson Mandela
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Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
— Stephen King
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
— Colum McCann
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The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks…
— Christian D. Larson
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I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you…
— Tom Hiddleston
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human…
— Robert Collier
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Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
— Harvey Mackay
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
— Oscar Wilde
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An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Optimist Quotes
266 authors contributed a total of 362 Optimist Quotes, led by these top contributors: