(572 quotes found)
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”
Rene Descartes
“Always look on the bright side of life.”
Monty Python
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henri Matisse
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
Bill Vaughn
“The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
Peter Ustinov
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
Zig Ziglar