Optimist Quotes

362 quotes by 270 authors

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists… — Tamar Myers
The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I… — Colin Beavan
I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. — Ray Farabee
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding… — James Branch Cabell
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and… — Martin Seligman
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. — Ken MacLeod
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him… — John McGahern
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance… — William Lyon Phelps
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. — Kay Redfield Jamison
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a… — Michael Pollan
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. — Peter Benchley
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better.… — Thomas Ligotti
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now,… — Christian D. Larson
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity. — Yanni

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