The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
I've always been an optimist.
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of "patriotism" is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a "patriotic American".
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful. " He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse. ’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.
I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.