Optimist Quotes - Page 19

• I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Bipolar, Temperament

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.309, Vintage

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• The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Believe, Men, Statistics

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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.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

  Peter Benchley

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hopeful

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• A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Problem, Pessimist

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• For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Hurt, Things Will Get Better, Needs

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• The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

  Christian D. Larson

  Hands, Waiting, Pessimist

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.322, Penguin

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• I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

  Andre Rieu

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Heart, Pessimist

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• I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

  Bill Gates

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

  Josiah Stamp

  Glasses, Looks, Half

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• I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important half that applies to himself, when he begins his approach to a subject with the proper mental attitude. The optimist may not understand, or if he understands he may not agree with, prevailing ideas; but he believes, yes, knows, that in the long run and in due course there will prevail whatever is right and best.

  Thomas Buckner

  Running, Attitude, Believe

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• Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Silly, Humor

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• The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Pain, Dark, Light

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Investing, Realist

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fighting, Always Trying, Kind

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Men, Arms

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• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  Zig Ziglar

  Two, People, Dollars

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• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  Zig Ziglar

  Pragmatic

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• I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

  Vinton Cerf

  Believe, Technology, Alternatives

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Thinking, World, Pessimist

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• Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

  Alex Haley

  Research, Serious, Results

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• I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

  Bill Ayers

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

  Jan Smuts

  Looks, Pessimist, Prehistory

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• I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Cynical

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: “He’s The Best!” -Everybody". Interview With David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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