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.
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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
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
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
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers
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
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S. Truman
Optimist Translations
optimist in Dutch is optimist
optimist in French is optimiste
optimist in Italian is ottimista
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