Optimists Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

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
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism… — Mark Matousek
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
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
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
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics… — Julian Baggini
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of… — Ariel Gore
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in… — Walter Cronkite
Fighters have to be optimists. — Greg Jackson
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. — Thomas Friedman
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas Friedman
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists… — Jose Saramago
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to… — Emile M. Cioran
Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris) — Brandon Sanderson

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