Optimist Quotes

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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… — Matthieu Ricard
This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the… — Swami Vivekananda
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, theyâ€™re more likely… — Paul Tough
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all… — Vera Nazarian
I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. — Amiri Baraka
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. — Matt Smith
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says â€˜Oh dear, things canâ€™t possibly get any worse.â€™ And an optimist… — Steven Galloway
All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else. — Abraham Lincoln
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Optimists are usually inexperienced. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. — Desmond Tutu
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists. — Jim Valvano
Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but… — Mariah Carey
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman

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