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Optimist Quotes

1.
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 Jennifer Lopez Desmond Tutu Navjot Singh Sidhu Robin Sharma Wayne Gerard Trotman Antonio Gala James O'Toole Abraham Lincoln Madeleine Albright Tony Lema Cornel West Jacqueline Novogratz Studs Terkel Sandra Bullock Matt Smith Joe Posnanski Don Marquis Neil Peart Steve Tisch Will Rogers Arthur C. Clarke Emily Mortimer Zig Ziglar Tim Berners-Lee Craig Venter Kay Redfield Jamison Preston Manning Ron Silver Randy Pausch Max Lerner
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 don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter

12.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
Neil Peart

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

17.
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

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

19.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
Robert Collier

20.
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni

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

24.
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning

25.
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

26.
We are optimists, until we are not.
Charles Darwin

27.
I'm too cynical to be an optimist.
Anthony Jeselnik

28.
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

29.
Fighters have to be optimists.
Greg Jackson

30.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

31.
I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change
Ron Silver

32.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
Kin Hubbard

33.
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore

34.
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Arthur C. Clarke

35.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Julian Tuwim

36.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni

37.
I am fundamentally an optimist.
Nelson Mandela

38.
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

39.
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

40.
An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis

41.
Let optimists rule the world.
Lauryn Hill

42.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Tim Berners-Lee

43.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

44.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela

45.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
Simon Sinek

46.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman

47.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter

48.
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
Studs Terkel

49.
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.
Oscar Hammerstein II

50.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner