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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. Votes: 5

Mark Twain

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Optimist â A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. Votes: 3

Ambrose Bierce

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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Votes: 3

Walter Winchell

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 3

Winston Churchill

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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. Votes: 3

George Jean Nathan

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 3

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. Votes: 3

William Arthur Ward

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Votes: 3

Carl Sandburg

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Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. Votes: 3

Robert Breault

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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. Votes: 3

Phyllis McGinley

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Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. Votes: 3

Robert Breault

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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Votes: 3

Jack Nicholson

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Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. Votes: 3

Simon Sinek

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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. Votes: 3

Albert Schweitzer

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How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side. Votes: 3

Phyllis McGinley

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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. Votes: 2

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Votes: 2

Antonio Gramsci

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. Votes: 2

Irv Kupcinet

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Votes: 2

Winston Churchill

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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. Votes: 2

Elbert Hubbard

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Votes: 2

Khalil Gibran

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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Votes: 2

Rene Descartes

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 2

Harry S. Truman

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Votes: 2

Bill Vaughan

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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. Votes: 2

Robert A. Heinlein

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Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. Votes: 2

James Branch Cabell

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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. Votes: 2

Leonard Louis Levinson

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. Votes: 2

Nelson Mandela

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Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist. Votes: 1

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. Votes: 1

Harold Wilson

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I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley. Votes: 1

Sally Hawkins

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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. Votes: 1

Will Rogers

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 1

Winston Churchill

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I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. Votes: 1

Armando Iannucci

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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will. Votes: 1

Octavia Spencer

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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. Votes: 1

James Buchan

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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. Votes: 1

Harvey Mackay

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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. Votes: 1

Rabindranath Tagore

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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. Votes: 1

Peter Ustinov

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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. Votes: 1

Cat Stevens

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The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do. Votes: 1

Sylvester Stallone

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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 1

Zig Ziglar

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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. Votes: 1

Studs Terkel

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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. Votes: 1

Michael Morpurgo

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The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. Votes: 1

Julian Baggini

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I'm a recovering optimist. Votes: 0

Larry Gelbart

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Be a tough-minded optimist. Votes: 0

Frosty Westering

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I may be an optimist. Votes: 0

Rebecca De Mornay

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I'm an optimist at heart. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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I've always been an optimist. Votes: 0

George Clooney

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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I'm an un-healable positive optimist. Votes: 0

Andre Rieu

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I'm nothing if not an optimist. Votes: 0

David Letterman

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I'm a humanist and an optimist. Votes: 0

Stewart D. Friedman

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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But I'm only a cockeyed optimist. Votes: 0

Oscar Hammerstein II

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I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. Votes: 0

Studs Terkel

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The optimist regards the future as uncertain. Votes: 0

Eugene Wigner

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Now, I happen to be an optimist. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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I'm too cynical to be an optimist. Votes: 0

Anthony Jeselnik

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I am by nature a worried optimist ... Votes: 0

Madeleine Albright

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The optimist is a pessimist with a plan Votes: 0

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. Votes: 0

Eyedea

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In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. Votes: 0

Tony Lema

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I would say Im an optimist by nature. Votes: 0

Steve Tisch

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I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think. Votes: 0

Emily Mortimer

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I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity. Votes: 0

Yanni

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I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. Votes: 0

Aziz Ansari

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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Novogratz

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I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. Votes: 0

Tim Berners-Lee

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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist. Votes: 0

Abbie Cornish

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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. Votes: 0

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist. Votes: 0

Antonio Gala

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I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. Votes: 0

Lewis Mumford

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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. Votes: 0

David Harley

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. Votes: 0

Max Lerner

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Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. Votes: 0

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. Votes: 0

Harold Wilson

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I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. Votes: 0

Karen Azinger

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I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lopez

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The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse Votes: 0

Preston Manning

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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. Votes: 0

William Golding

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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing Votes: 0

Alice Herz-Sommer

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If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. Votes: 0

Norman Foster

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I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things. Votes: 0

Fritz Scholder

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Votes: 0

Jean de La Fontaine

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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better. Votes: 0

Roger Moore

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A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. Votes: 0

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out Votes: 0

Roger Meddows Taylor

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We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. Votes: 0

Rachael Yamagata

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Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. Votes: 0

Laurell K. Hamilton

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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. Votes: 0

Kin Hubbard

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I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. Votes: 0

Thomas Buckner

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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Votes: 0

Peter Benchley

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It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Votes: 0

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.' Votes: 0

Bill Bailey

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Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) Votes: 0

Saloma Miller Furlong

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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Votes: 0

Terence Conran

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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. Votes: 0

Eric Sevareid

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To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. Votes: 0

William Arthur Ward

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A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. Votes: 0

Julian Tuwim

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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Votes: 0

Lesslie Newbigin

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Votes: 0

Matthieu Ricard

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I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. Votes: 0

Betty White

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Votes: 0

Winston S. Churchill

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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. Votes: 0

Howard Gardner

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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. Votes: 0

Viggo Mortensen

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The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. Votes: 0

Steve Aylett

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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Votes: 0

Al Gore

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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change Votes: 0

Ron Silver

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It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0

John Waters

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A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment. Votes: 0

Aziz Ansari

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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. Votes: 0

Ron Silver

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The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason. Votes: 0

Anthony Liccione

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I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0

David Souter

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. Votes: 0

Ray Farabee

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An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. Votes: 0

William Arthur Ward

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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. Votes: 0

Ken MacLeod

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I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. Votes: 0

Mike Dirnt

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I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. Votes: 0

Amiri Baraka

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An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. Votes: 0

Heinz Ruhmann

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I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Votes: 0

Arthur C. Clarke

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I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. Votes: 0

Molly Ivins

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I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. Votes: 0

Matt Smith

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I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Votes: 0

Tom Bodett

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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Votes: 0

Jules Renard

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When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. Votes: 0

Jan Smuts

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The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision. Votes: 0

William Arthur Ward

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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. Votes: 0

John McCarthy

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. Votes: 0

James Branch Cabell

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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. Votes: 0

William Arthur Ward

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The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Trine

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Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Votes: 0

Martin Seligman

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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one Votes: 0

Will Rogers

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

Chauncey Depew

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A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. Votes: 0

Daniel Reardon

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To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. Votes: 0

Sandra Bullock

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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. Votes: 0

Ada Leverson

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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. Votes: 0

Earl Weaver

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An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Votes: 0

Harry S Truman

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I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind. Votes: 0

Neil Peart

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Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country. Votes: 0

Jim Ramstad

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A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! Votes: 0

Lori Greiner

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An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem. Votes: 0

Harry S. Truman

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I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to. Votes: 0

Brittany Murphy

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I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. Votes: 0

Cherie Blair

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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' Votes: 0

Vladimir Bukovsky

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For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude. Votes: 0

Scott Adams

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You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. Votes: 0

Rondal Partridge

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I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist. Votes: 0

Mary Meeker

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Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? Votes: 0

Gretel Ehrlich

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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Votes: 0

Peter Ustinov

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An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet. Votes: 0

Hartman Rector, Jr.

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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt. Votes: 0

Zig Ziglar

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One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. Votes: 0

Clay Aiken

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A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. Votes: 0

Josiah Stamp

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An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. Votes: 0

Helen Rowland

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I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations. Votes: 0

Vinton Cerf

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I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist. Votes: 0

Holt McCallany

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Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed. Votes: 0

Archibald Marwizi

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Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm. Votes: 0

Fernando J. Corbato

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PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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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. Votes: 0

Albert Schweitzer

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I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. Votes: 0

Sandra Bernhard

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Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you. Votes: 0

Ray Davies

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It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? Votes: 0

Barbara Mertz

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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. Votes: 0

Kay Redfield Jamison

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To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. Votes: 0

Munia Khan

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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. Votes: 0

Hans Hofmann

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If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more. Votes: 0

Martin Seligman

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I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous. Votes: 0

Demi Moore

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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. Votes: 0

Leymah Gbowee

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I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz

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I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. Votes: 0

Hans Rosling

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I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance. Votes: 0

Amanda Holden

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I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist. Votes: 0

Jules Breton

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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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? Votes: 0

Joe Posnanski

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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds. Votes: 0

Ramez Naam

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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. Votes: 0

Paullina Simons

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Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist. Votes: 0

Richard Lewontin

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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. Votes: 0

Stanislaw Ulam

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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. Votes: 0

Cherrie Moraga

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The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. Votes: 0

Cherríe L. Moraga Gloria Anzaldua

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I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist. Votes: 0

Anthony Jeselnik

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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. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again. Votes: 0

Harvey Mackay

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To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference. Votes: 0

Kevin Rudd

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I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard. Votes: 0

David Petraeus

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Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway. Votes: 0

Julian Baggini

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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future. Votes: 0

Jeanette Lee

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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. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.' Votes: 0

John McGahern

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Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead. Votes: 0

J. Oswald Sanders

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The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit. Votes: 0

Colin Beavan

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I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant. Votes: 0

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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times. Votes: 0

Christian D. Larson

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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." Votes: 0

Nicholas Hoult

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I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month. Votes: 0

Mary Higgins Clark

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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. Votes: 0

Jacki Weaver

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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. Votes: 0

Nicholas Hoult

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A dangerous fire retardant chemical is being found in women's breast milk. My wife's breastfeeding, but you know, you gotta be an optimist. I'm like, well, maybe it's making my child fireproof. Votes: 0

Greg Giraldo

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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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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. Votes: 0

Matt Mullenweg

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I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in. Votes: 0

Bill Ayers

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Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive. Votes: 0

Mariah Carey

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Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. Votes: 0

Garry Shandling

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I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way. Votes: 0

Francis Fukuyama

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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot. Votes: 0

Madeleine Albright

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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. Votes: 0

James Branch Cabell

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I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. Votes: 0

Robert Redford

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I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work. Votes: 0

Owen Wilson

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I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Votes: 0

Vaclav Havel

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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Ein Pessimist ist ein ausgelernter Optimist.

Strauß, Franz Josef

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Ein Pessimist ist ein Optimist, der nachgedacht hat.

Unbekannt

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Der Optimist und der Pessimist haben einen gemeinsamen Nenner: Den Mist.

Fürstenberg, Carl

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Wer in der Politik Dankbarkeit erwartet, ist ein unverbesserlicher Optimist.

Habsburg, Otto von

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Ein Optimist ist in der Regel ein Zeitgenosse, der ungenügend informiert ist.

Priestley, John Boynton

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Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der alles halb so schlimm oder doppelt so gut findet.

Rühmann, Heinz

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Der Optimist hat nicht weniger oft unrecht als der Pessimist, aber er lebt froher.

Rivel, Charlie

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Ein Optimist ist ein Mann, der Kreuzworträtsel sofort mit dem Kugelschreiber ausfüllt.

Farkas, Karl

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Der Optimist ist ein Mann, der Kreuzworträtsel sofort mit dem Kugelschreiber ausfüllt.

Farkas, Karl

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Er ist ein Optimist. Er glaubt, daß es von ihm abhängt, wann er Selbstmord begehen will.

Laub, Gabriel

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Der Optimist erklärt, dass wir in der besten aller Welten leben, und der Pessimist fürchtet, dass dies wahr ist.

Cabell, James Branch

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Sobald ein Optimist ein Licht erblickt, das es gar nicht gibt, findet sich ein Pessimist, der es wieder ausbläst.

Guareschi, Giovannino

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Sobald ein Optimist ein Licht erblickt, das es gar nicht gibt, findet sich ein Pessimist, der es wieder ausbläst.

Guareschi, Giovanni

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Der Optimist erklärt, daß wir in der besten aller möglichen Welten leben, und der Pessimist fürchtet, daß dies wahr ist.

Cabell, James Branch

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Ich bin mein ganzes Leben Optimist gewesen und habe an die Vernunft, die Intelligenz des Menschen und sein Gewissen geglaubt.

Huxley, Julien Sorell

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Ein Optimist ist jemand, der genau weiß, wie traurig die Welt sein kann, während ein Pessimist täglich neu zu dieser Erkenntnis gelangt.

Ustinow, Sir Peter

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Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

Fontane, Theodor

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Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says "Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' And an optimist says, "Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

Steven Galloway

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In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

Bella Abzug

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On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Helen Caldicott

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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Franklin P. Adams

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I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

Hoda Kotb

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I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

Michael Ian Black

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Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

Eleanor Smeal

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Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than you." But he was an optimist too; his other advice: "Never worry about rejection. Every day is a new beginning."

John Ritter

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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

A. E. Housman

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There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

Yvon Chouinard

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I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Brownstein

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The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his lifeâ¦.

Christian D. Larson

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

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One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn out well. This can keep people in bad relationships because they genuinely believe that things will always improve.

Amy Dickinson

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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

Victor Cherbuliez

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If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

Robert Anton Wilson

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I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Louis Zamperini

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Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

Margaret Atwood

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals, we can be the best. 'Spare me the grim litany of the 'realist;' give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.

Colin Powell

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Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

Milan Kundera

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