Dale Carnegie Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

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

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I am not a cynic.

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

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I am an optimist.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

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

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?