Optimist Quotes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Difficulty, Sees

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Change, Wind, Pessimist

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Difficulty, Sees

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

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

Before, After, Knows

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.
Rabindranath Tagore

Through, Dark, Become

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens

Good, Live, End

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.
Steve Jobs

Smart, Sense, View

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fun, Become, Stop

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

Person, Pessimist, Acquainted

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

May, Why, Light

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

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer

Wise, Person, Light

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman

Makes, Pessimist

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

Best, True, Possible

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
Henry Rollins

Change, Blood, Necessary

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan

Old, Year, Until

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

Morning, Eyes, Times

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

Sad, Fool, After

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett

Forget, Laugh, Between

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

Looking, Believes, Fellow

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard

Everything, After, Count

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard

Believes, Fellow, Postponed

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

School, Last, Year

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet

Diet, Person, Starts

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

Experience, Guy

I'm an optimist.
William Shatner

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell

Someone, Lion, Scenery

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

Worse, Pessimist

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