Labeling Quote by Octavia Spencer

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically…

— Hans Rosling

We are optimists, until we are not.

— Charles Darwin

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a…

— Steve Jobs

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

— Barack Obama

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be…

— Leymah Gbowee

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant…

— Carrie Brownstein

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

— Clay Aiken

There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist.

— Quinta Brunson

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of…

— Vera Nazarian

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

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

— Patrick deWitt