Jim Leach Quotes

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

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

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

Americans like optimists and shun 'doomsayers.'

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

I am a congenital optimist.

I'm annoyingly optimistic.

I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.