Optimist Quotes

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

  

  George Takei
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Optimist

• Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.

  

  Hannah Hart
  • Progress
  • Optimist

• I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

  

  William Golding
  • Intellectual
  • Conviction
  • Pessimist

• Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Opportunity
  • Desire
  • Growth

• An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

  

  Ring Lardner
  • Mistakes
  • Optimist

• It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Sound
  • Evidence
  • Sides

• I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Optimist

• I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Enough

• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Friendship
  • Human being
  • Virtues

• Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Focus
  • Looks
  • Obstacles

• A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

  

  Eyedea
  • Experience
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• 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. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Heart
  • Morning
  • Dark

• I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Way
  • Optimist

• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Optimist
  • Disorder

• I'm a huge optimist.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Optimist

• I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Problem
  • Optimist

• I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Optimist
  • Hopeful

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