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“An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.”
Zig Ziglar
“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
Walter Winchell
“When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”
Carl Rogers
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
James Branch Cabell
“I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.”
Yusuf Islam
“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”
Don Marquis
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
Winston Churchill
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
“Demand for iMac exceeded our most optimistic forecasts,”
Steve Jobs
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”