Definition of Optimist

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Definition of Optimist
	Optimist One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best. One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist. Related Definitions: All, Are, Best, Bright, For, Hopeful, Of, On, One, Opinion, Opposed, Or, Ordered, Pessimist, Side, That, The, To, Who

Optimist Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier

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

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

Optimist Translations

optimist in Dutch is optimist
optimist in French is optimiste
optimist in Italian is ottimista

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