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Optimist Quotes by Thomas Friedman
- Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
- Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
- 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…
More Optimist Quotes
- ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes
- The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out… — Mark Twain
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill
- I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine
- Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein
- It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining… — Russell Simmons