Optimist Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.

  Simon Sinek

  Beautiful, War, Successful

  Source: advisor.tv

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