Best 125 quotes in «optimist quotes» category

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

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

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

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

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

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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

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

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.

Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

Do this exercise: Demolish the bridges of pessimism behind you. If you do this very well, you'll have no other choice than to move forward! Successful people are always optimistic!

Faith is, believing there is still a star out there to wish on, just for you, tucked away behind dark clouds.

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it.

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

He, who had once been the declared optimist, had not once expressed hope. Now it was she who was offering it to him. And it might be false hope

His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going to kill you, then. If you've had the same thing before, you'll be alright in the morning.' My mother couldn't have more profoundly disagreed with that. 'You're such an optimist, dear,' she often said with a sigh. 'You're a good deal of a pessimist, sweetheart.' 'I certainly am.' And yet, I was well aware as I stood between them, he the optimist was the one who was prepared for the worst, and she the pessimist was the daredevil.

His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.

Count the roses, not the thorns.

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

Don't let the blights of the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.

I’m a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

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

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Is the definition of a pessimist a person who only sees what he hasn't got but wants? Would an optimist never see the empty space? Or is there some other detail I'm leaving out? Is it more complicated? I don't know. It isn't always bad to see the empty space, is it? Isn't it all right to see both, the filled space and the empty space? You could be in either. I have to try and see everything.

Many people place facts above faith and that makes things seem impossible for them

Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.

My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves. And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.

Optimism is an effort.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope.

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan

The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous.