Optimist Quotes - page 2

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. (Elbert Hubbard)
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. View quote
Garry Shandling
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. View quote
Todd Solondz
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist. View quote
Hans Hofmann
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart. View quote
John Dos Passos
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. View quote
Rex Stout
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. View quote
Helen Keller
I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities. View quote
Lewis Mumford
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
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. View quote
Christian D. Larson
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... View quote
Christian D. Larson
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line. View quote
Jack McDevitt
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. (Tom Bodett)
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. View quote
Fernando J. Corbató
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. View quote
Colum McCann
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. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
The simple reason I like every idea is that I'm an optimist. View quote
Marc Randolph