Top Optimist Quotes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
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Jean de La Fontaine All Optimist Quotes
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 
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
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The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
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I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
Cat Stevens
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Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
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Popular Optimist Authors
Mark TwainWinston ChurchillWill RogersElbert HubbardCarl SandburgHarry S. TrumanKin HubbardAlbert SchweitzerJack NicholsonJean de La FontaineDon MarquisCat StevensHenry RollinsRobert A. HeinleinJohn McCarthy
TerencePeter UstinovRobert CollierClay AikenMichael PollanJules RenardRon SilverRoger MooreGeorge Jean NathanRobert RedfordTodd SolondzRene DescartesGarry ShandlingStuds TerkelJim Ramstad
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