I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out — Roger Meddows Taylor
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment. — Aziz Ansari
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding
I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best. — Jurgen Klopp
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. — Steve Jobs
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. — Walt Disney
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. — Henry Rollins
You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. — Frank Gehry
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain
I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work. — Owen Wilson
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. — Henry Rollins
Short I Am An Optimist Quotes
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. — Walter Winchell
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. — Carl Sandburg
Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. — Carl Rogers
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. — Maynard James Keenan
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. — Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
It made sense to be pessimistic in the past, but it makes sense to be an optimist today. — Naval Ravikant
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. — Roger Federer
I Am An Optimist Image Quotes
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Being An Optimist Quotes
There are probably multiple reasons for that. It’s easier to be a pessimist than an optimist. It’s hard to guess how life is going to improve; it’s easier to extrapolate how it’s going to get worse. — Naval Ravikant
To be an entrepreneur, you need to be optimistic about the fact that you’re creating something that other people are going to find value in. — Naval Ravikant
I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. — Haruki Murakami
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. — Earl Weaver
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings. — I. F. Stone
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass. — Marianne Williamson
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. — Oscar Wilde
I Am Not A Pessimist Quotes
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. — Vaclav Havel
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. — Henry Adams
I am not a pessimist.
Just a well informed optimist. — Antonio Gala
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history. — A. E. Housman
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. — Roberto Rossellini
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. — Peter Ustinov
Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.
I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the 1980s, and it is true today. You should know that I do not consider myself a pacifist; there are times, in my view, when military action may be necessary. — Oscar Arias
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist. — Ellen Glasgow
As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation. — Frans de Waal
Being Optimistic Quotes
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. — Henry David Thoreau
Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. — Dalai Lama
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton
Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful. — Conor McGregor
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra
Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha.
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela
If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it. — Nicholas Winton
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things. — Alice Herz-Sommer
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. — Charlotte Whitton
I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. — William James
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Nicholas Murray Butler
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day. — Rosa Parks
I am and always will be - The Optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of improbable dreams.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. — Harry Nilsson
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. — Seth Godin
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough. — Richard DeVos
Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming. — Daisaku Ikeda
Stay Optimistic Quotes
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius
Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? — Robert Noyce
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. — Bill Vaughan
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Optimistic young adults stay healthier throughout middle age and, ultimately, live longer than pessimists. — Angela Duckworth
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life. — Walt Disney
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.
You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams. — Hugh Hefner
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. — Rick Steves
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy. — Charles Stanley
Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. — William J. Clinton
Optimistic Person Quotes
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. — Irv Kupcinet
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) — Robert M. Sapolsky
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale
The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate. — Narendra Modi
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis
I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It's not even the success of my shows. I think it's the lifestyle change, I really do. — Norman Reedus
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them. — Christian D. Larson
Pessimist And Optimist Quotes
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. — Leonard Louis Levinson
Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist. — Morgan Housel
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. — Robert A. Heinlein
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S. Truman
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Kahlil Gibran
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens." — Yvon Chouinard
An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree; a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire. — Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. — Lucille Ball
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism. — Gilda Radner
If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. — Rabindranath Tagore
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
I might rap about a lot of stuff, but that’s just a reflection about what I’ve been through. But in real life, everything I do is positive. — 21 Savage
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. — George A. Sheehan
Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. — Paul J. Meyer
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. — Christian D. Larson
Always look on the bright side of life. — Graham Chapman
Hope And Optimism Quotes
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. — Noam Chomsky
Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future. — Dan Miller
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. — William Faulkner
The hope that gritty people have has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with getting up again. — Angela Duckworth
Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies. — Thomas Friedman
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future. — Dorothy Rowe
Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. — Jack Layton
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. — David Limbaugh
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. — Jack Layton
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. — Louis Zamperini
Although we live in an unstable region that has challenges and different viewpoints, I am very optimistic by nature and I believe that the UAE today is more like a light that illuminates a dark land. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. — Nelson Mandela
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate. — Matt Mullenweg
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. — Cat Stevens
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. — Max Lerner
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. — Winston Churchill
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. — Jan Smuts
By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am. — Larry Kramer
I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. — John Templeton
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
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing. — Helen Keller
I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy. — Amy Poehler
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant. — Frances Moore Lappé
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic. — Albert Schweitzer
I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already. — Iain Duncan Smith
Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles. — Henry Miller
I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. — Amanda Holden
You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways. — Les Wexner
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. — Michael Morpurgo
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard. — David Petraeus
My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person. — Rayvon Owen
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico. — Charles Bowden
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better. — George Macdonald
I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations. — Vinton Cerf
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with. — Carrie Brownstein
For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude. — Scott Adams
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot. — Madeleine Albright
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied. — Martin Rees
I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am. — Ron Santo
I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to. — Brittany Murphy
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