Optimist Quotes - Page 17

• PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Philosophy, Pessimism

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Degrees, Cynicism, Eternal

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• I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Perspective, Pessimist, Conclusion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

  Lori Greiner

  Wine, Glasses, Guy

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Jan 08, 2014

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• People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

  Louis Zamperini

  Believe, Glasses, People

  Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2014). “Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

  Helen Caldicott

  Future, Optimistic, Thinking

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• There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

  Mark Matousek

  Artist, Achievement, Effort

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• Now, I happen to be an optimist.

  Ronald Reagan

  Happens

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• I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

  Sally Hawkins

  Happy Life, Smiley

  "Lady luck" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Fall, Stories, Building

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

  Mike Dirnt

  Believe, Kind, Life After Death

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• There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, People, Lasts

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• All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Frustration, Goal

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• An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

  Helen Rowland

  Country, Wife, Optimism

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• Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

  David Harley

  Reality, Entrepreneur, Pessimist

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• If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

  Norman Foster

  Would Be, Impossible, Architect

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• Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Too Much, Sin

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• I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.

  John Dos Passos

  Optimistic, Heart, Men

  Interview on February 03, 1964. "Talks With Authors". Book edited by Charles F. Madden, 1968.

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• I don't know if the optimists
  or the pessimists are right.
  But, the optimists are going to get something done.

  Craig Venter

  Done, Pessimist, Knows

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• President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift of discernment; he is an optimist and a realist. . . . Through President Hinckley's divine guidance, the Church has received many far-reaching blessings, many that are not obvious. I strongly encourage each of you to more closely follow his counsel and guidance, for truly 'a seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people' (Moses 6:36).

  David E. Sorensen

  Blessing, Divine Guidance, People

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• Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

  Robin Sharma

  Pessimist, No Hope, Disappointed

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2017

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• I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Cynical, Too Much, Way

  "Comedian Anthony Jeselnik: 'He's The Best!' - Everybody". Interview with David Dean, www.serialoptimist.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I would say Im an optimist by nature.

  Steve Tisch

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• Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

  Ouida

  Men, Optimism, Looks

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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