I’m happy to admit that I’m a hopeless optimist.
I’m an incurable optimist and a go-getter – it’s in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
I’m sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
I don’t know that I’d call myself an optimist.
I’m an eternal optimist.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
I am an optimist and have always been one.
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.
As a Liverpool fan, I’m an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.
I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, ‘No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,’ that shows I’m an eternal optimist.
In real life, I’m pretty much an eternal optimist.
A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
I would say I’m an optimist by nature.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.
I’ve been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I’m an optimist.
Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we’ve got until 2014. I’m an optimist.
An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn’t take his advice.
I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don’t see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I’m an optimist – people feel that in my books.
I’m an optimist.
I’m an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there’s always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
I am an optimist about America.
Which is, I’m an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
I’m an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you’re even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I’m a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which – by and large – have advanced humanity.
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
I’m a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
Well, I’m an optimist.
I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I’ll always assume it’s indigestion. It will probably be the end of me! But it’s true – that’s the kind of person I am.
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists – and by that, I don’t mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
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.
Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.
One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists, and I consider myself to be an optimist.
I am, if nothing else, an optimist.
The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He’s an optimist, and he’s a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.
I’m an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
I am an optimist in my life.
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.
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.
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it’s beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
I’m an optimist by nature.
He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn’t. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
I am one of those guys that’s an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don’t know how you can be any other way.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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.
I’m a long-term optimist, and I don’t think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Be the optimist in the room.
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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.
I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.
Sometimes people ask me, ‘Are you an optimist or a pessimist?’ It doesn’t matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.
I’m an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Today, I don’t have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can’t lose my legs twice.
I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
I am a congenital optimist.
I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.
Life doesn’t always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.
I personally don’t think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.
I’m always an optimist!
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you’re really stupid.
I’m sort of an optimist, a high energy type of enthusiastic guy. Someone that tries to be genuine with the players, I’m not a guy that’s going to come in and be a drill sergeant.
My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.
I’m a born, cautious optimist.
I’ve been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I’ve always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you – in health, with what I’ve been through. That’s the way I am.
To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the back. To dismiss someone’s argument as pessimistic is to suggest it is the product of a personality disorder, rather than careful analysis.
