Top 84 Be An Optimist Quotes
#1. I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West
#2. He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.
Louis De Bernieres
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
#8. You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Rondal Partridge
#9. I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein
#10. Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
Ray Davies
#12. Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
Fernando J. Corbato
#13. If ever I murdered somebody," he added quite simply, "I dare say it might be an Optimist.
G.K. Chesterton
#14. When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Harvey MacKay
#15. 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
#16. The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
#17. 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
#18. I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore
#19. 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
#20. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg
#21. I'd be an optimist if people didn't suck so much.
Kelley York
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Mark Twain
#28. However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.
S.A. Tawks
#29. You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
Will Rogers
#30. I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver
#31. If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
Martin Seligman
#33. It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
Ruth Reichl
#34. I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
Edwin Morgan
#35. Don't worry about it. If I'm wrong, Security is monitoring me every second."
"That just means they'll know who to charge with your murder," said Forrice.
"Are you always this optimistic?"
"I have to be an optimist," explained Forrice. "I won't have anyone to tease if they kill you.
Mike Resnick
#36. One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.
Randy Pausch
#37. With so many generous friends and family members from so many places for so many years, how could I not still be an optimist? Thomas
Thomas L. Friedman
#38. Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
Todd Solondz
#39. A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.
Helen Keller
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Bill Gates
#46. 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
#47. I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
Martin Rees
#48. 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
#49. Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
Franklin P. Adams
#50. I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Arthur C. Clarke
#51. The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come
Peter Ustinov
#52. I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.
Hoda Kotb
#53. I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
Vinton Cerf
#54. I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'll always assume it's indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it's true - that's the kind of person I am.
Terry Wogan
#55. An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard
#56. An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.
Bill Ayers
#60. Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.
Robert A. Heinlein
#61. From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.
Elie Wiesel
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
Norman Foster
#71. 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
#72. At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain
#73. 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
#74. It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
Stanislaw Ulam
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
#81. 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
#82. In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
Winston S. Churchill
#84. I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
John Sculley
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