Top 100 Quotes About Optimist
#1. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
J. Oswald Sanders
#2. The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
Ian Millar
#3. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#4. The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.
Sylvester Stallone
#5. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.
Jay Asher
#6. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
William Arthur Ward
#7. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#8. I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Betty White
#10. 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
#11. Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
Garry Shandling
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
George Takei
#15. 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
#17. An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
#18. I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
Mary Higgins Clark
#19. Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Laurence J. Peter
#20. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
#21. 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
#22. An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
Heinz Ruhmann
#23. I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#24. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
#26. To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
William Arthur Ward
#27. 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
#29. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#30. In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning
Carl Sandburg
#31. Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
#33. 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
#35. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson
#36. 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
#37. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#46. 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
#47. I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
Aziz Ansari
#48. The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on the unnaturalness of everything in the light of the supernatural.
G.K. Chesterton
#49. 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
#50. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William Golding
#54. 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
#55. You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?
Rachel Caine
#57. The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Karl Kraus
#58. If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
Norman Foster
#60. I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.
Tiffany Reisz
#61. 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
#62. I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
Mark Twain
#66. 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
#67. In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
Tony Lema
#68. A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
P.G. Wodehouse
#69. But it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.
Charles Williams
#71. At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain
#72. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and
and rational argument.
Barack Obama
#76. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.
Amy Jo Cousins
#77. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
Mark Twain
#79. 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
#80. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
#81. I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?
Debasish Mridha
#85. That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
Mark Twain
#86. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark Twain
#87. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch.
Colleen Hoover
#92. I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Neil Peart
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell
and paints the inside walls sky-blue
and blocks up the door
and says he's in heaven.
D.H. Lawrence
#96. Why does everyone always leap to the awfullest conclusions right away.
Ransom Riggs
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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