Quotes about optimist

Don Marquis -

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Julius Genachowski -

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

J. Robert Oppenheimer -

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Betty White -

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Andre Rieu -

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

Ruth Reichl -

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

George Jean Nathan -

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Harold Wilson -

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

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….

Christian D. Larson -

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.

Dr. Seuss - Happy Birthday to You!

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Debasish Mridha -

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

JT Sanz -

There's no point in knowing without enlightenment, yet edified insights arouse movement.

Shelby D. Hunt - and Resource-Advantage Theory

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

Cathy Burnham Martin - The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Jenny Han - To All the Boys I've Loved Before

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

Susin Nielsen - Optimists Die First

...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists.""I find that hard to believe""Of course you do, you're an optimist. You have a misguided belief that things will go your way. You don't see the dangers till it's too late. Pessimists are more realistic. "That seems like a sad way to govern your life.""It's a safe way to govern your life.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

C. JoyBell C. -

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

Harvey MacKay -

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Munia Khan -

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Bill Cosby -

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist real

Bernard Malamud - The Fixer

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny -

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.

Margaret Peterson Haddix - Full Ride

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Debasish Mridha -

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Don Marquis -

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Adam P. Knave - Stays Crunchy in Milk

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

Debasish Mridha -

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

Richie Norton -

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.

Noel DeJesus -

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

Amit Kalantri -

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Jocelyn Murray - The English Pirate

All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship

Bogdan Vaida -

The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.

William Golding -

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

Debasish Mridha -

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.

Anthony Liccione -

Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds.

Anna Funder - Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.

Lemony Snicket - Horseradish

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Roy T. Bennett -

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

Jack Kerouac -

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

Constance Friday -

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

Constance Friday -

Don't let the blights of the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Keep your heads up! We are sinking!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Debasish Mridha -

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all

Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking

My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.

Amy Jo Cousins - The Girl Next Door

You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Jonathan Harnisch - Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Constancev Chuks Friday -

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Debasish Mridha -

This world is unreal and ever-changing. Only an optimist with optimum love can adjust and grow with joy.