Top 175 Optimist Quotes

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

I’m a blind optimist when going into things.

I’m painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it’s because of my faith – I’ve always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

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.

Both my wife and I are optimists and we look at the positives in life.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always felt like an Old Testament Jeremiah or Cassandra from ancient Greece. I want to run down the streets warning people.

I’m an optimist – very glass half-full.

I’m an optimist by nature.

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.

Director Jai Krishna is an optimist who has a never-say-die attitude. He has impressed me thoroughly with his faith in the industry. Not many are aware of the fact that this man had to wait for almost 30 years in this industry to direct ‘Vanmam,’ his first film.

As for me, I’m an optimist.

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.

I am an optimist and my father was an optimist.

I’m not a pessimist at all, but I’m not an optimist, either.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

I’m an optimist.

I do not propose to solve the Israeli-Palestine conflict. But I do think the world would be a vastly safer place – and maybe a happier one, too – if more of us learned to see beyond our biases, our preferences, and became optimists capable of letting go.

I’ve gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there’s a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I’m feeling, I’m always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

I’m an incurable optimist, and I’m a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can’t possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

I’m an eternal optimist. I’ve no regrets. I’ve people who love me. I’ve a wonderful life. I’m grateful for what I have.

I’m the eternal optimist. That’s who I am.

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.

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.

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.

I’m always an optimist.

I’m an optimist.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

I refuse to use terms like ‘optimist’ or ‘pessimist’ and instead prefer ‘realist.’

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I’m an optimist, so I like to think we’ve progressed in some ways – in Australia, we get equal pay.

I may be an optimist.

I am a natural optimist, as entrepreneurs tend to be.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

Optimists don’t mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

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.

I’m absolutely an optimist. It’s the only way to get through life.

I’m an optimist. You can’t be an entrepreneur if you’re not essentially an optimist, so I’m an optimist by nature.

I’m a huge optimist.

Americans like optimists and shun ‘doomsayers.’

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.’

I’m not a glass-half-full optimist. I’m a glass-overflowing optimist.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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.’

I am an optimist.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

I’m a real optimist.

I find, when you’re an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

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

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

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

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.

I am a huge optimist.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

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.

I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I’ve regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

If I didn’t work in television or film, if I didn’t have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I’m not a nihilist, I’m an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

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.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Ultimately, I’m an optimist.

I’m an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

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.

I’m an optimist at heart.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimists – people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy – they’re the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.

I’m an optimist, and I’ll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they’ll work themselves out.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I’ve never been an optimist.

I’m an optimist.

I’m an un-healable positive optimist.

I’m a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I’m a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.