Top Optimist Quotes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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Henry Rollins 
Jim Ramstad 
Cat Stevens 
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Albert Schweitzer All Optimist Quotes
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew 
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Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
Jim Ramstad
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I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.
Roger Moore
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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
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Popular Optimist Authors
Mark TwainWinston ChurchillWill RogersElbert HubbardCarl SandburgHarry S. TrumanKin HubbardAlbert SchweitzerJack NicholsonJean de La FontaineDon MarquisCat StevensHenry RollinsRobert A. HeinleinJohn McCarthy
TerencePeter UstinovRobert CollierClay AikenMichael PollanJules RenardRon SilverRoger MooreGeorge Jean NathanRobert RedfordTodd SolondzRene DescartesGarry ShandlingStuds TerkelSandra Bernhard
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