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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. -- Mark Twain
Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes. -- Mark Twain
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. -- Mark Twain
Optimist â?? A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. -- Ambrose Bierce
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. -- Walter Winchell
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -- Winston Churchill
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. -- George Jean Nathan
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -- William Arthur Ward
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. -- Carl Sandburg
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha. -- Robert Breault
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. -- Phyllis McGinley
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. -- Robert Breault
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
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. -- Simon Sinek
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
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. -- Phyllis McGinley
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. -- Antonio Gramsci
Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists -- Mark Twain
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. -- Irv Kupcinet
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -- Winston Churchill
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. -- Elbert Hubbard
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. -- Khalil Gibran
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! -- Oscar Wilde
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? -- Rene Descartes
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. -- Mark Twain
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -- Harry S. Truman
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. -- Bill Vaughan
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
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. -- James Branch Cabell
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. -- Leonard Louis Levinson
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. -- Nelson Mandela
Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. -- Harold Wilson
I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley. -- Sally Hawkins
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer. -- Will Rogers
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. -- Armando Iannucci
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. -- Octavia Spencer
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. -- James Buchan
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. -- Harvey Mackay
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
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. -- Peter Ustinov
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. -- Cat Stevens
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. -- Sylvester Stallone
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.' -- Zig Ziglar
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. -- Studs Terkel
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. -- Michael Morpurgo
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. -- Julian Baggini
I'm a recovering optimist. -- Larry Gelbart
Be a tough-minded optimist. -- Frosty Westering
I may be an optimist. -- Rebecca De Mornay
I'm an optimist at heart. -- Ted Cruz
I've always been an optimist. -- George Clooney
I am fundamentally an optimist. -- Nelson Mandela
I'm an un-healable positive optimist. -- Andre Rieu
I'm nothing if not an optimist. -- David Letterman
I'm a humanist and an optimist. -- Stewart D. Friedman
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. -- Mark Twain
But I'm only a cockeyed optimist. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful. -- Studs Terkel
...fry me an optimist for breakfast. -- Mark Twain
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. -- Mark Twain
The optimist regards the future as uncertain. -- Eugene Wigner
Now, I happen to be an optimist. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm too cynical to be an optimist. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I am by nature a worried optimist ... -- Madeleine Albright
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty. -- Winston Churchill
A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. -- Eyedea
In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. -- Tony Lema
I would say Im an optimist by nature. -- Steve Tisch
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think. -- Emily Mortimer
I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity. -- Yanni
I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. -- Aziz Ansari
I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. -- Colum McCann
I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope. -- Desmond Tutu
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist. -- Abbie Cornish
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself. -- Zig Ziglar
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. -- Idries Shah
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist. -- Antonio Gala
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. -- Lewis Mumford
I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. -- Sarah McLachlan
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. -- Oscar Wilde
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. -- David Harley
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. -- Max Lerner
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. -- Kin Hubbard
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. -- Harold Wilson
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. -- Nelson Mandela
An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. -- Karen Azinger
I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. -- Jennifer Lopez
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. -- Robert Breault
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. -- Rex Stout
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse -- Preston Manning
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. -- Cornel West
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. -- Laurence J. Peter
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. -- William Golding
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. -- Elbert Hubbard
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing -- Alice Herz-Sommer
If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. -- Norman Foster
I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things. -- Fritz Scholder
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. -- Albert Einstein
I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better. -- Roger Moore
A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. -- Winston Churchill
An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock. -- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out -- Roger Meddows Taylor
We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. -- Stephen Hawking
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. -- Laurence J. Peter
That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. -- Mark Twain
I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. -- Rachael Yamagata
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed -- Kin Hubbard
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else. -- Abraham Lincoln

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