Optimist Quotes

• The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Force
  • Produce
  • Brightness

• To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Doors
  • Handle
  • Pessimist

• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Patriotism
  • Nationalism
  • Patriotic American

• I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

  

  Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

  

  David Landes
  • Success
  • Achievement
  • Improvement

• 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
  • Blood
  • Cruelty
  • Disharmony

• 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
  • I Think
  • Optimist
  • Worrier

• I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.

  

  Yanni
  • Choices
  • Stupidity
  • Optimist

• I’m an optimist, I can write about tough times. You get sad, you put a name on your sadness and then you move on.

  

  Matthew Vasquez
  • Sadness
  • Optimist
  • Move On

• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Light
  • Blow
  • Pessimist

• In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.

  

  Abel Aganbegyan
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist
  • Soviet Union

• Gerald is the eternal optimist who has what could be perceived as a handicap -he can't speak - but he figures out clever ways to communicate ideas so he doesn't let it stop him. He goes through life with rose-colored glasses and doesn't think 'I can't.' I think that's a great character to put out there for kids.

  

  Bob Higgins
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Ideas

• An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

  

  Ada Leverson
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• 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
  • Attitude
  • Record
  • Nut

• 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
  • Environment
  • Army
  • Drug

• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Reason
  • Advertising
  • Distribution

• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Possibility
  • Infinite
  • Pessimist

• I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Hope
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Laughter
  • Optimist

• 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
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Stories

• I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • American
  • Twilight
  • Grown-Up

• I've always been an optimist.

  

  George Clooney
  • Optimist

• Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Optimist
  • Disneyland
  • Tortured-artist

• I would say Im an optimist by nature.

  

  Steve Tisch
  • Optimist

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