« All Optimist Quotes · William Arthur Ward's Page
Optimist Quotes by William Arthur Ward
- The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
- The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
- But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is…
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
- The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
- Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
More Optimist Quotes
- But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair
- The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett
- In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan
- 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
- At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain
- ...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
- There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault
- Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. — Mark Twain