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The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot

Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists. — Anonymous

Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce. — Zig Ziglar

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air — Gunnar Staalesen

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot

Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness). — Claire

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres

All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship — Jocelyn Murray

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists. — Jim Valvano

Optimists think badly, but live well. — Marty Rubin

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. — Miguel De Unamuno

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, — Walter Cronkite

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists. — Keith Thompson

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. — Colin Firth

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. — James Reston

Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and hold him. Part of me wanted to fling myself on the bed and pummel him. — Susan Nielsen

All programmers are optimists — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis

Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers? — Robert Black

We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought. — Marty Rubin

Pessimists thrive while optimists starve. — Zachariah Dracoulis

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for. — C. JoyBell C.

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

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley

Fighters have to be optimists. — Greg Jackson

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Definitely not - you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick. — Brandon Sanderson

You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air. — Frederick Lenz

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. — Rudy Giuliani

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. — Harvey MacKay

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. — John C. Maxwell

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. — Mason Cooley

Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside. — Marilyn Suttle

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Communists are the last optimists. — Nadine Gordimer

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. — Wes Fesler

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley; — David Mitchell

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. — Simon Sinek

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists — Mark Twain

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. — Thomas L. Friedman

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude. — Cathy Burnham Martin

the following September I started at the grammar school. This was in a red-brick building of the kind beloved by Victorian optimists. In — Sebastian Faulks

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can. — Bernard Williams

We are optimists, until we are not. — Charles Darwin

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed. — Philip Littell

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford

Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented. — Ivanka Trump

But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them. — Fredrik Backman

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all. — Stephen King

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side. — Molly Ivins

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout

I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists. — Helen Keller

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney

Let optimists rule the world. — Lauryn Hill

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God. — Timothy Keller

we are always optimists when it comes to time; we — Fredrik Backman

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible — William Arthur Ward

Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway. — Jonathan Harnisch

Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists. — Gregory Benford

Optimists are happier in life for a reason. — Brendon Burchard

Optimists are usually inexperienced. — Wayne Gerard Trotman