Optimist Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Believe, Optimistic

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.46, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

  Tony Lema

  Partners, Picks

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• Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

  "Cable Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on personal and professional failures". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2012.

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Relationship, Commitment, Love Is

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• I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Change, Believe, Order

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 05, 1991.

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• Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

  Steven Galloway

  Differences, Pessimist, So Sad

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.53, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Optimistic, Practice, Goal

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.97, Penguin

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• I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

  Desmond Tutu

  Prisoner

  "Post-Apartheid South Africa". "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Fred de Sam Lazaro, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Views, Perspective, Pessimist

  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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• Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

  Mark Twain

  Optimism

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Mind, Pessimist

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• Optimists are usually inexperienced.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Afterlife, Littles

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• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

  Ted Koppel

  Believe, Odds, Overcoming

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• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

  Bella Abzug

  Pain, Passion, Justice

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• What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Lucky, World

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• A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Optimism, Imagine, Pessimist

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• An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.

  Heinz Ruhmann

  Men, Optimism, Half

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• An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Glasses, Optimism, Needs

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• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

  John McGahern

  Empires, Window, Building

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• ...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Breakfast

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely to pick themselves up and try again.

  Paul Tough

  Trying, Events, Looks

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.

  Vera Nazarian

  Believe, Reality, Track

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