Quotes on Optimistic

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?