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Optimists are usually inexperienced. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Optimists are happier in life for a reason. -- Brendon Burchard
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. -- Ted Koppel
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! -- Shimon Peres
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible -- William Arthur Ward
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. -- Denis Waitley
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. -- Harvey Mackay
Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. -- Thomas Friedman
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. -- Mason Cooley
The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; -- David Mitchell
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
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they're more likely to pick themselves up and try again. -- Paul Tough
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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. -- Bob Lewis
Let optimists rule the world. -- Lauryn Hill
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. -- Lewis Mumford
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. -- Rudy Giuliani
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. -- Don Marquis
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. -- James Reston
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. -- Virginia Postrel
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. -- Colin Firth
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.' -- Paul Tonko
If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two. -- Julian Baggini
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands. -- Ariel Gore
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Communists are the last optimists. -- Nadine Gordimer
Fighters have to be optimists. -- Greg Jackson
We are optimists, until we are not. -- Charles Darwin
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. -- William Arthur Ward
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. -- Francois Guizot
Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. -- Wes Fesler
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists. -- Stefano Benni
Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists -- Mark Twain
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy -- Louise Imogen Guiney
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. -- Robert Breault
I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air -- Gunnar Staalesen
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. -- Benjamin Graham
Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. -- James Reston
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. -- Ouida
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. -- George Bernard Shaw
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. -- Alice Thomas Ellis
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. -- Helen Keller
Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness)." -- Claire
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. -- Alex Haley
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. -- Thomas Friedman
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done. -- Craig Venter
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side. -- Molly Ivins
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God. -- Timothy Keller
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all. -- Stephen King
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists. -- Jim Valvano
Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith. -- Barbara Holland
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air. -- Frederick Lenz
You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air. -- Frederick Lenz
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. -- John C. Maxwell
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. -- Sydney J. Harris
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can. -- Bernard Williams
Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die? -- Emile M. Cioran
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism. -- John Derbyshire
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." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris) -- Brandon Sanderson
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past, -- Walter Cronkite
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. -- Sinclair Lewis
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. -- Jose Saramago
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort. -- Mark Matousek
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. -- Franz Grillparzer

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