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I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Eric Sevareid

I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.

Janis Joplin

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Rene Descartes

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S Truman

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

He's a real estate guy from Detroit. He's a black man who is a big-time philanthropist who does a lot with Optimist Clubs and churches. He's a real neat guy.

Glenn Marshall

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

Tom Bodett

I guess I'm probably an eternal optimist. Talk to me in July and August, but right now I'm full of hope.

Fred Bradt

I really am an optimist for the future of this city.

Laurence Geller

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Max Lerner

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Ring Lardner

A lot of things could happen, but we can't be paralyzed by that. I'd like to be an optimist. We're acting very appropriately under our authority.

Dave Buhler

I am still hopeful, and maybe I'm a cockeyed optimist, that we can finish this year.

Chris Vein

Maybe I'm a cockeyed optimist.

John Monks

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

Mark Twain

The team is hurt, but we have a great desire to win. There is certainly not a lot of happiness on this team after what happened to us in the last two games, but I'm always an optimist.

Gianluigi Buffon

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

If one is an optimist, one might be very hopeful that the principles (on how to resolve the nuclear issue) would be agreed upon at the very next round of talks.

James Leach

So I`m an optimist — sue me!

G. B. Trudeau

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Elbert Hubbard

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which I believe he will do because he's a natural optimist, ... No matter what happens on Election Night, he'll figure out a way to say 'This is fantastic.'

Allan Hoffenblum

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill

Joe met in here for many, many years with the Optimist Club, and he was on the board a long time. We mentioned this to him before he passed away, and he said he was very, very honored.

Gary Johnson

I'm a fan, an optimist.

Ulysses Yannas

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collier

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Will Rogers

Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.

Jonathan Allen

And when thinking about it, not everyone's an optimist quite yet.

Jim Adams

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is ''man'' himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

I'm an optimist and think California does have a bright future.

Elizabeth Hill