Optimist Quotes - Page 11

• I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

  Paullina Simons

  Thinking, United States, Way

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• I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

  Jude Law

  Years, People, Champion

  "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hands, Greek, Islam

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• I may be an optimist.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  May

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• I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Thinking, Broken

  "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Hopeful, World

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• I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Depressing, Optimistic, Work Out

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• I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

  Martin Rees

  Believe, Technology, People

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• I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Country, Hopeful, Littles

  "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

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• A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

  Julian Tuwim

  Doe, Pessimist, Having Hope

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• You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.

  Walter Cronkite

  Believe, Past, Victory

  Walter Cronkite (1971). “The challenges of change”

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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. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Heart, Thankful To God

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• Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Realizing, Goodness

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Optimism, Guy, Experience

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Optimism, Possibility, Pessimist

  "Lewis Mumford Remembers". The New York Times, July 6, 1977.

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• An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

  Don Marquis

  Optimism, Persons

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• Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

  Rowan Williams

  Brother, Loneliness, Reality

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.121, Cowley Publications

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• RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Thinking, Glasses, Half

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• I am not a pessimist.
  Just a well informed optimist.

  Antonio Gala

  Pessimist, Wells

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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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• This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide. . . . Cuthbert was an optimist at heart, and it seemed to him that, at the rate at which the inhabitants of that interesting country were murdering one another, the supply of Russian novelists must eventually give out.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Suicide, Country, Heart

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• I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Scripts, Stories

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