Top 100 Quotes About Optimists
#2. I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air
Gunnar Staalesen
#3. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#4. Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
#6. the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In
Sebastian Faulks
#7. The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.
Philip Littell
#8. Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
Timothy Keller
#9. Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
Emil Cioran
#10. We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. - HERBERT MCCABE, OP
Terry Eagleton
#11. We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.
Marty Rubin
#12. Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.
Wes Fesler
#13. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.
Bogdan Vaida
#14. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
Thomas L. Friedman
#18. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
#19. Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.
Gregory Benford
#20. 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
#21. In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.
John Vaillant
#22. Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
James Reston
#23. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#24. The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.
Francois Guizot
#25. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
Ted Koppel
#26. Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.
Marilyn Suttle
#28. Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen King
#29. Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists.
Anonymous
#30. As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
Virginia Postrel
#31. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#33. I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#34. Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing
its goodness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#35. But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.
Fredrik Backman
#36. I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.
Tamar Myers
#37. The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
Francois Guizot
#38. Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#39. It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Molly Ivins
#40. If there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.
Jose Saramago
#41. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani
#42. Optimists are intrinsically happier and happiness breeds further happiness. Light a candle rather than curse the darkness and do not wait for someone else to light it; do it yourself.
Natasha Murtagh
#43. I like to think of my people as mute optimists - leave the elephant alone and, eventually, perhaps with the help of a couple mimosas, he will disappear from the room on his own accord.
Julie Buxbaum
#45. Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#46. Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Harvey MacKay
#47. Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
Ivanka Trump
#48. Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.
Anna Funder
#49. Definitely not - you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.
Franz Grillparzer
#52. Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman
#53. Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.
John Derbyshire
#54. Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
Alex Haley
#55. A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
#56. I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter
#57. Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#58. Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again.
Paul Tough
#59. Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
Sinclair Lewis
#60. Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
Steve Jobs
#61. The atheists I know, virtually all of whom are happy and mentally healthy, might more properly be called anti-nihilists. We are mainly optimists who love our lives and find them to be full of meaning and purpose.
Dan Barker
#62. Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
Sydney J. Harris
#63. Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.
Michael Gove
#64. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.
Naima Simone
#65. The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham
#66. There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you're right.
Marc Andreessen
#67. Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
Colin Firth
#68. Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
Mark Twain
#69. It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
Miguel De Unamuno
#70. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past,
Walter Cronkite
#71. Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
Shimon Peres
#72. There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.
Robert Breault
#73. Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
Denis Waitley
#74. Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.
Barbara Holland
#75. Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy
Louise Imogen Guiney
#76. The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;
David Mitchell
#77. Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
Bernard Williams
#79. There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.
Mark Matousek
#80. Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible
William Arthur Ward
#81. Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
Ouida
#82. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#83. Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.
Zig Ziglar
#84. Optimists envision the best that could happen.
Pessimists envision the worst that could happen.
Pragmatists envision the likely to happen.
The pessimist finds many reasons to quit.
The optimist finds many reasons to keep going.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#85. If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.
Julian Baggini
#87. Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.
C. JoyBell C.
#88. The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
John C. Maxwell
#89. History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.
Keith Thompson
#90. Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
Jim Valvano
#91. One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.
Elie Wiesel
#92. Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
#93. As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'
Paul Tonko
#94. Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).
Claire
#97. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
Jonathan Harnisch
#98. You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him.
Susan Nielsen
#100. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
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