Optimist Quotes
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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Albert Einstein -
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain -
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell -
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner
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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 -
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Hans Rosling -
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson -
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I really am a cockeyed optimist.
Vicki Lawrence -
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon -
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 -
I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
Nate Lowman -
As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
Ted Danson -
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar
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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
Sally Hawkins -
I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I'm a real optimist.
Barbara Sukowa -
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver