Quotes on Optimist

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

I am fundamentally an optimist.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.