Top 100 An Optimist Quotes
#1. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.
Jay Asher
#3. I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Demi Moore
#4. Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
Garry Shandling
#5. I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins
#6. So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
George Takei
#8. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.
Jules Breton
#9. An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
#10. Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Laurence J. Peter
#11. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
#12. After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.
David Talbot
#13. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
Heinz Ruhmann
#14. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
#15. Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.
Melissa Kite
#17. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#18. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg
#19. Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
#21. Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist.
Jo Graham
#23. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson
#24. Tried be cheerful, tried be upbeat, tried not to let my feelings show, not to blame him, not to mind when day after day, week after week, his nonchalance eroded my heart. Sometimes, being an optimist was quite the fucking effort.
Kristan Higgins
#25. Ella turned to the fireplace where a blackened kettle hung over what Granny Weatherwax always called an optimist's fire: two logs and hope.
Terry Pratchett
#27. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Nicholas Hoult
#28. I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
A.E. Housman
#29. 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 dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.
Carrie Brownstein
#30. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez
#31. I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
Willem Dafoe
#32. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#33. We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
Sherry Thomas
#34. I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
Aziz Ansari
#35. I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.
Ron Santo
#37. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William Golding
#39. So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist ... If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.
Thomas L. Friedman
#41. The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Karl Kraus
#42. If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
Norman Foster
#44. The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#45. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
Abel Aganbegyan
#46. I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
Holt McCallany
#47. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal
#48. A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
P.G. Wodehouse
#49. At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain
#50. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
#51. The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ ... That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening ... We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Billy Graham
#52. I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.
Francis Fukuyama
#53. I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
#54. If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.
Robert Anton Wilson
#55. 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 very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
#56. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?
Debasish Mridha
#57. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark Twain
#58. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
#59. An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.
Milan Kundera
#60. Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
Simon Sinek
#62. Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch.
Colleen Hoover
#63. I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Neil Peart
#64. Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar
#65. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
Helen Caldicott
#66. Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.
Ransom Riggs
#67. It was a lot to hope for, but Holden was an unapologetic optimist. Give people the information they need. Trust them to do the right thing. He didn't know any other way to play it. Or
James S.A. Corey
#68. An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
Harry S. Truman
#69. Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.
Dean Koontz
#70. You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.
Debasish Mridha
#72. How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
Robert Breault
#73. An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
#74. A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon
#75. I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
K'naan
#76. I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
Maelle Gavet
#77. I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
Lesslie Newbigin
#78. I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
Mary Meeker
#79. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Mark Twain
#80. The belief in miracles that all men cherish is born of immoderate indulgence in hope. There are people who go on hope sprees periodically and we all know the chronic hope drunkard that is held up before us as an exemplary optimist. Tip-takers are all they really are
Anonymous
#81. However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.
S.A. Tawks
#83. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Laurence J. Peter
#84. All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#85. Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence
#86. I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.
John Niven
#88. If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.
Kim Cattrall
#89. I am an optimist about our species. I assume God is, too, for otherwise He would have scrubbed us off the planet a long time ago and would have started over.
Dean Koontz
#90. Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.
Graham Greene
#91. An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
Helen Rowland
#92. I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
Sarah McLachlan
#93. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.
Munia Khan
#94. I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
#95. Don't ever become a pessimist ... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
#96. It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#97. By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner
#98. I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith
#99. I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
Lewis Mumford
#100. You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
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