Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
- Norman Cousins
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
- Robert Brault
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
- Arnold Bennett
Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality.
- Oliver Pell
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
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
- Raymond Aron
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
- Gil Stern
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
- Daniel L. Reardon
For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you.
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
- Unknown
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
- Norman Cousins
After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
- Robert Brault
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
- Agnes Repplier
How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
- Robert Mallett
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
- Robert Brault
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
- W. R. Inge
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
- Unknown
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
- Virginia Woolf
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
- Unknown
Pessimism of the spirit, optimism of the will.
- Antonio Gramsci
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- Susan J. Bissonette
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
- Douglas Jerrold
I am not a pessimist, to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
- Roberto Rossellini
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
- Unknown
Comedy is acting out optimism.
- Robin Williams
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Harry Truman
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith, pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
- William Arthur Ward
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
- Kin Hubbard
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell
I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
- Ronald Reagan
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis
There is a danger when I speak in English that you will get misunderstanding, because I use the wrong word. Sometimes I confuse the words pessimism and optimism.
- Tenzin Gyatso
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
- Robert Brault
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Bill Vaughan
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Harry Truman
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
- Elbert Hubbard
