Top 100 Quotes About Optimist
#1. 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
#2. Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
#3. I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Al Gore
#4. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
Leonard Louis Levinson
#6. Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. 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
#8. I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
Janet Fitch
#9. 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
#10. I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela
#11. 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
#13. The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Vladimir Bukovsky
#15. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#16. 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
#17. I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.
Jenny Lewis
#18. I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
Nick Bostrom
#19. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
#20. Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.
Robert Brault
#21. 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
#22. I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.
Fritz Scholder
#24. 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
#25. An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter
#26. I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.
Armando Iannucci
#27. Being just a little cynical will make you a much safer optimist.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.
Jennifer Lopez
#30. The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.
Hartman Rector Jr.
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
Winston Churchill
#34. I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. 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
#36. And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
Molly Ivins
#37. 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
#38. In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
Edward Abbey
#39. I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Michael Pollan
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.
Thomas Cathcart
#43. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
#44. You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Rondal Partridge
#45. COLBIE: I'm an optimist. I believe in love and romance and happily ever after.
Bijou Hunter
#46. An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner
#47. I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
#48. Oh, all my friends,
Young or old, mad or sad,
Loving or kind, optimist or pessimist,
Enjoy the drama of life,
enjoy the beauty of life,
enjoy every moment of it,
Because this is it,
We are all in our last journey
We call life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.
Jodi Kantor
#50. I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
David Souter
#51. My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.
Jenna Morasca
#52. Perv - I've gotten upgraded from stalker.' Wasn't he the eternal optimist?
Laura Thalassa
#53. 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
#54. It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
John Waters
#55. 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
#56. Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.
Junot Diaz
#57. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
Josiah Stamp
#58. Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can - that our fate is to suffer in isolation and then die. But it's our collective fate! So I guess I'm an optimist.
Lauren Fox
#59. PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong
.. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong
Sanhita Baruah
#61. I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Frances Moore Lappe
#62. You're such an optimist Kane
that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.
Paul Grist
#63. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
#64. 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
#65. An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
John McCarthy
#66. The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist.
Gregor Collins
#67. Everything okay?"
"I'm not sure, but it's not shittier, so that's something."
She laughed. "Still an optimist.
Lisa Kessler
#68. 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
#69. He knew too much to be an optimist, and not enough to relieve his pessimism.
Louis De Bernieres
#70. 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
#71. I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Alice Herz-Sommer
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.
G.K. Chesterton
#76. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde
#77. 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
#78. I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.
Cherie Blair
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
#83. 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
#85. 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
#86. The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
Randall Munroe
#87. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.
Robert Kirkman
#89. I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Ken MacLeod
#91. A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
Saloma Miller Furlong
#94. Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.
Charles Martin
#95. I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Bill Gates
#96. 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
#97. You can discern the pessimist from the optimist by just looking at how people react to snow.
Iveta Cherneva
#98. Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain
#99. 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
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