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.
2.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
Mark Twain
3.
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
Eyedea
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
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I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
Aziz Ansari
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I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
Harold Wilson
8.
In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.
Tony Lema
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid
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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
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner
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
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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
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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
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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.
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
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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change
Ron Silver
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed
Kin Hubbard
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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
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"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni
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I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore
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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
Arthur C. Clarke
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A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Julian Tuwim
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
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
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis
47.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner
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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
Mark Twain
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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman
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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter