Top 100 An Optimist Quotes
#2. You're such an optimist Kane
that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.
Paul Grist
#3. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
#4. You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
Ted Danson
#5. Everything okay?"
"I'm not sure, but it's not shittier, so that's something."
She laughed. "Still an optimist.
Lisa Kessler
#6. I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.
Amanda Holden
#7. He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.
Louis De Bernieres
#8. I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
Jude Law
#9. I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Alice Herz-Sommer
#10. It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
Elizabeth Peters
#11. To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
Kevin Rudd
#12. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
Joe Posnanski
#15. I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference ... I am an optimist who worries a lot.
Madeleine Albright
#16. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
#17. Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.
Junot Diaz
#18. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
#19. I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
Anthony Jeselnik
#20. 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
#22. I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson
#23. This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#25. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet
#26. Not anticipating I'd be on trial for my life, my mother hadn't bothered to pack a suit for me. She was, by nature, an optimist.
David Liss
#27. I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Octavia Spencer
#28. I smiled at his note. I'd never thought about myself as an optimist, but maybe I was. And maybe we all saw books differently based on our own hearts.
Mia Sheridan
#29. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Bill Gates
#30. Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.
Charles Martin
#31. Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
Saloma Miller Furlong
#33. A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#35. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.
Xiaolu Guo
#38. An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
Harvey MacKay
#39. I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam
#40. It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
John Waters
#41. One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.
Amy Dickinson
#42. I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
David Souter
#43. I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
#44. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner
#45. COLBIE: I'm an optimist. I believe in love and romance and happily ever after.
Bijou Hunter
#46. You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Rondal Partridge
#47. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
#48. Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.
Shelby D. Hunt
#49. Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
Garry Shandling
#50. In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
Edward Abbey
#51. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
#52. And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
Molly Ivins
#53. He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.
Brandon Sanderson
#54. I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
Winston Churchill
#56. For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.
Scott Adams
#57. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it through one door, I'll go through another door
or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark
the present.
Joan Rivers
#59. I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Armando Iannucci
#60. An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter
#61. He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
Lyn Nofziger
#62. Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.
Russell Banks
#63. I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
Nick Bostrom
#64. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Helen Keller
#66. I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#67. I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela
#68. I am an optimist ... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
Tom Hiddleston
#69. I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
Janet Fitch
#70. Hypocrisy is a quality found in others. I am an optimist. I believe that saying the right thing will eventually cause people to do the right thing for me.
Bauvard
#71. I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now - cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.
Lemony Snicket
#72. For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#73. The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.
Colin Beavan
#74. I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid
#75. I'm an optimist by nature.
Jon Kyl
#76. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
#77. The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
#78. 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 an optimist.
Leymah Gbowee
#79. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo
Lisa Kleypas
#81. An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.
Karen Azinger
#82. An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning
#83. I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.
Julie Gayet
#84. I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#85. I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore
#86. A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Julian Tuwim
#87. 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 with the world.
Hans Rosling
#88. Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?
Margaret Atwood
#89. I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world ...
Steven Spielberg
#90. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
#91. I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
Nate Lowman
#92. Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#93. For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
Brian Eno
#95. With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
#97. I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.
Ray Farabee
#98. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Oscar Wilde
#99. An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree;
a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak.
G.K. Chesterton
