| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Camus | If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. |
| Anne Perry | ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. |
| Anonymous | Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral. |
| Anonymous | Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. |
| Carl Sandburg | In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. |
| Charled A Beard | When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. |
| Charles Eliot | Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. |
| Don Marquis | An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience. |
| Don Marquis | An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. |
| Earl Weaver | I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. |
| James Branch Cabell | The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. |
| John F Kennedy | When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. |
| Jonathan Swift | Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. |
| Kin Hubbard | An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. |
| Milan Kundera | Optimism is the opium of the people. |
| Paul Fussell | I find nothing more depressing than optimism. |
| Reginald B Mansell | A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. |
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