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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

Famous Optimist Authors

Sandra Bernhard

Tom Bodett

Eric Sevareid

Studs Terkel

John McCarthy

Will Rogers

Antonio Gramsci

Mark Twain

Carl Sandburg

Walter Winchell

Earl Weaver

Harold Wilson

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All Optimist Quotes

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Ring Lardner

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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S. Truman

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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

George Jean Nathan

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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

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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein

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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

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He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

Lyn Nofziger

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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

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