Optimist Quotes

All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

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

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

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.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen. Doing so can lead to poor decisions and invites people to take advantage of you. Instead, be a rational optimist who takes the good with the bad, in hopes of the good ultimately outweighing the bad, and with the understanding that being pessimistic about everything accomplishes nothing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best - the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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.