Quotes About Optimism

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

As long as we can imagine a better path, of course we are obligated to seek it. This is why unwarranted pessimism about our future is actually irresponsible.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

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.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

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

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.