Optimist Quotes
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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'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
Viggo Mortensen
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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay -
I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
Patrick deWitt -
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
Matt Smith Poison -
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. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.
Vaclav Havel -
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah -
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
Abraham Lincoln
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
Ehud Olmert -
I'm a recovering optimist.
Larry Gelbart -
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
Norman Foster -
I may be an optimist.
Rebecca De Mornay -
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Cherrie Moraga -
I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
Roger Taylor Queen
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Vladimir Bukovsky -
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward -
Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal -
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
Bella Abzug -
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen -
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'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.
Yanni -
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Christian D. Larson -
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 Black Flag -
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