Optimists Quotes

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

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

I’m an optimist. If you’re not an optimist, this [Congress] isn’t the job for you.

The most optimistic content themselves with an expression of hope that things may change under the spur of necessity.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious.

Let optimists rule the world.

Both my wife and I are optimists and we look at the positives in life.

The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

I happen to be an optimist. I don't know why I'm in Congress.

Too often people view idealists as naive.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

In politics, optimists always trump pessimists.

Those of us who are romantic idealists …

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.