Quotes on Optimist

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

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

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.