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
4.
[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
6.
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
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
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
19.
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
Cornel West
20.
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
Robin Sharma
21.
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni
22.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
Robert Collier
23.
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
Preston Manning
24.
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
27.
I am not a pessimist.
Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala
30.
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
32.
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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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
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"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni
36.
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore
37.
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
42.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela
43.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
44.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
Simon Sinek
46.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
Laurence J. Peter
49.
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