Optimist Quotes

362 quotes by 270 authors

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller
Communists are the last optimists. — Nadine Gordimer
Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? — Gretel Ehrlich
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The… — Benjamin Graham
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So… — James Branch Cabell
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. — Mike Dirnt
There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at… — Marc Andreessen
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations… — Fred Brooks
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. — Eyedea
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist… — Mahatma Gandhi
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light… — Sydney J. Harris
I'm a recovering optimist. — Larry Gelbart
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I may be an optimist. — Rebecca De Mornay
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit… — Jude Law
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I… — Paullina Simons
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit… — Criss Jami
I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. — Aziz Ansari
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. — Sandra Bernhard

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