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Optimist Quotes

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A cynic is an idealist with a clear understanding of reality.
Authors on Optimist Quotes: Mark Twain Nelson Mandela Aziz Ansari Eric Sevareid Oscar Hammerstein II Rex Stout Arthur Schopenhauer Jean de La Fontaine George Clooney Barbara Boxer Ronald Reagan Sarah McLachlan Molly Ivins Brendon Burchard Al Gore Roger Meddows Taylor Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Janet Fitch Eugene Wigner Larry Gelbart Simon Sinek Jean-Paul Sartre Barbara Mertz Stefano Benni Rebecca De Mornay Howard Gardner Andre Rieu Gilbert K. Chesterton Laurence J. Peter Roger Moore Viggo Mortensen Kin Hubbard Charles Darwin
2.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
Mark Twain

3.
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
Eyedea

4.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout

5.
I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
Aziz Ansari

6.
I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
Harold Wilson

7.
I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out
Roger Meddows Taylor

8.
In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
Tony Lema

9.
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
Abraham Lincoln

10.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid

11.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Neil Peart

12.
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter

13.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner

14.
Optimists are happier in life for a reason.
Brendon Burchard

15.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
Molly Ivins

16.
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

17.
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
Matt Smith

18.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers

19.
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni

20.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
Robert Collier

21.
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West

22.
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
Robin Sharma

23.
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
Steven Galloway

24.
We are optimists, until we are not.
Charles Darwin

25.
I'm too cynical to be an optimist.
Anthony Jeselnik

26.
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala

27.
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning

28.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

29.
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change
Ron Silver

30.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
Kin Hubbard

31.
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

32.
Fighters have to be optimists.
Greg Jackson

33.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni

34.
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore

35.
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Arthur C. Clarke

36.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Julian Tuwim

37.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Tim Berners-Lee

38.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

39.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela

40.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
Simon Sinek

41.
I am fundamentally an optimist.
Nelson Mandela

42.
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

43.
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis

44.
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

45.
Let optimists rule the world.
Lauryn Hill

46.
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.
Oscar Hammerstein II

47.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner

48.
...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
Mark Twain

49.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman

50.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter