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Quotes About Optimist

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist ... or maybe even a pessimist. The glass has water in it; that's all I know.
~ Clay Aiken
Being just a little cynical will make you a much safer optimist.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
~ Peter Benchley
Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.
~ Philip Pullman
Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.
~ Philip Pullman
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
~ Jim Bakker
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
~ Chauncey Depew
Trump, despite his disappointment at Washington's failure to properly greet and celebrate him, was, like a good salesman, an optimist. Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.
~ Michael Wolff