An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
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