An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. Votes: 3
George Jean NathanThe optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Votes: 3
J. Robert OppenheimerIn these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. Votes: 3
Carl SandburgI am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. Votes: 1
Armando Iannucci[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0
Rex StoutA pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardA pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist. Votes: 0
Rachael YamagataThat optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. Votes: 0
Mark TwainSometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonAn optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterWe are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingI guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. Votes: 0
Peter BenchleyI am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Votes: 0
Lesslie NewbiginBetter to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaIt may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist. Votes: 0
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorI'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. Votes: 0
Eric SevareidPerhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Votes: 0
Terence ConranMurphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) Votes: 0
Saloma Miller FurlongI'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. Votes: 0
Betty WhiteWhen hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. Votes: 0
Matthieu RicardAn optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterHow do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. Votes: 0
Viggo MortensenI am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican. Votes: 0
Ray FarabeeI am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0
David SouterIt's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Votes: 0
Mark TwainI think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change Votes: 0
Ron SilverI think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. Votes: 0
Ron SilverThe optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer. Votes: 0
Steve AylettI'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. Votes: 0
Al GoreIt reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people. Votes: 0
John WatersA pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaAn optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. Votes: 0
Heinz RuhmannI want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. Votes: 0
Bill GatesI'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. Votes: 0
Mike DirntI'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win. Votes: 0
Amiri BarakaI am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkeWhen I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. Votes: 0
Jan SmutsAt 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Votes: 0
Mark TwainAn optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. Votes: 0
Jules RenardI used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. Votes: 0
Sandra BullockA pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0
Chauncey Mitchell DepewA pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. Votes: 0
Chauncey DepewYou've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one Votes: 0
Will RogersIn the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. Votes: 0
Daniel ReardonEin Optimist ist in der Regel ein Zeitgenosse, der ungenügend informiert ist.
Priestley, John BoyntonEr ist ein Optimist. Er glaubt, daß es von ihm abhängt, wann er Selbstmord begehen will.
Laub, Gabriel