Optimist Quotes - page 7

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist. (Kofi Annan)
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. View quote
Jude Law
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
... If ever I murdered somebody," he added quite simply, "I dare say it might be an Optimist." "Why?" cried Merton amused. "Do you think people dislike cheerfulness?" "People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
...If ever I murdered somebody," he added quite simply, "I dare say it might be an Optimist." "Why?" cried Merton amused. "Do you think people dislike cheerfulness? View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way. View quote
Francis Fukuyama
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. View quote
Willem Dafoe
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. The railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Joan Rivers)
I tend to be an optimist about human nature but a political pessimist...I think we're living in very, very scary times and we have to find ways of looking squarely at it and finding reasons for optimism. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale. View quote
Thomas Friedman
I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too. View quote
Tom Petty
I'm a genetic optimist. View quote
Jeff Bezos
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. View quote
Jules Renard
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt. View quote
Zig Ziglar
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself. View quote
Zig Ziglar
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' View quote
Zig Ziglar
An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him. View quote
Zig Ziglar
I have believed in love and work, and their linkage. I have believed that we are neither angels nor devils, but humans, with clusters of potentials in both directions. I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. (Max Lerner)
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. View quote
Max Lerner
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. View quote
Jack Nicholson
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. View quote
Sandra Bullock