Behinds Quote by Guy Pearce

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

— Margaret Atwood

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

— Pierre Trudeau

I love optimism but most times reality isn't all optimistic and sometimes we have to say things the way they appear to us.

— Terry Mark

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of…

— Price Pritchett

Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well.

— Senoraroy

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else…

— Tony Judt

Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.

— William Arthur Ward

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we…

— Yoko Ono

I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

— Ai Weiwei

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

— Jim Leach

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

— Tom Hanks