Optimist Quotes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. View quote
William Arthur Ward
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. View quote
Mark Twain
The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the Pessimist fears it is true. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner. View quote
Karl Kraus
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. View quote
Bill Vaughan
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. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. View quote
James Branch Cabell
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. View quote
Mark Twain
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. (Winston Churchill)
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. View quote
Harry S. Truman
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. View quote
Carl Sandburg
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one. View quote
Will Rogers
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. View quote
Chauncey Depew
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. View quote
Antonio Gramsci
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. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole. View quote
Oscar Wilde
An optimist is a guy that never has had much experience. View quote
Don Marquis
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic. (Albert Schweitzer)
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. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. View quote
Robert Collier
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. View quote
Kin Hubbard
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass. View quote
Mark Twain