Candide Quote by Mark Ravenhill

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

— James Branch Cabell

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

— Bill Crawford

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

— Simon Sinek

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

— Nelson Mandela

I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.

— Rush Limbaugh

“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is unknown and…

— William Ayers

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

— Al Gore

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

Find optimism in the inevitable

— Rem Koolhaas

“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.”

— Miguel de Unamuno