Optimism

21 quotes.

• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight.

  Albert Schweitzer

• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill

• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

  Helen Keller

• A pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.

  Anonymous

• A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.

  D.O.Flynn

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Sir Winston Churchill

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

  Donald R. Perry Marquis

• Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

  Charles Eliot

• Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.

  Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"

• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. Ayou can do itwhen things are tough.

  Richard M. DeVos

• For myself I am an optimist -- It does not seem to be much use being anthing else.

  Anonymous

• I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

  Clint Eastwood

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open yours eyes in the morning.

  Carl Sandburg

• Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

  Jorge Luis Borges

• Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce

• The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

  Samuel Johnson

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

  James B. Cabell

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  Robert Oppenheimer

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals" 1957

• You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

  Franklyn Broude

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