Optimist Quotes
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
G. B. Stern
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In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel L. Reardon
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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.
Bill Vaughn
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I`m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
Antonio Gramsci
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose
Kahlil Gibran
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
Mark Twain
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
Winston Churchill
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
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I have always had different aspects to my personality. I think I`m a long-term pessimist and a short-term optimist. I do feel a great darkness about humanity. But -- simultaneously and contradictorily -- I also feel that life can be pretty fabulous. I sho...
John Carpenter
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I`m an optimist. I hope if a movie`s good that it will be a success, but as we know, that`s not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns, there`s lots of reasons. When something doesn`t do better than it deserves to i...
Willem Dafoe
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I`m quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.
Sally Hawkins
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I`ve shot eight [television pilots] so far. I am an optimist. I believe that one day I will do a pilot that will actually go!
Judith Hoag
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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.
Studs Terkel
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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.
Studs Terkel
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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.
Albert Sterner
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
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The governor is a great speech maker and if speech making and high-flying rhetoric were things that make this state great, Michigan would be back. I`m an optimist, too. But after three years of lack of results, I wonder if the people of Michigan are getti...
Anthony Wright
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Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one`s physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
Todd Solondz
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Joe met in here for many, many years with the Optimist Club, and he was on the board a long time. We mentioned this to him before he passed away, and he said he was very, very honored.
Gary Johnson
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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.
Jack Nicholson
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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.
Sandra Bernhard
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I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you`re not, nothing will change.
Ron Silver
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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.
Clay Aiken
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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Amanda Zimmerman
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I guess I`m a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
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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.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Cat Stevens
