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In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. - Abraham–Hicks


My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. - Henry Rollins


Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it'll be too dark to read. - Author Unknown


The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault


Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern


A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. - Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927


The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will, The Leveling Wind


A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all — he's walking on them. - Leonard Louis Levinson


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


An optimist is the human personification of spring. - Susan J. Bissonette


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


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. - Irv Kupcinet





Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. - Kin Hubbard


Optimists are nostalgic about the future. - Chicago Tribune


Optimism is the foundation of courage. - Nicholas Murray Butler





Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. - Drew Deyoung


I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life — even when it's a kick in the teeth. - Polly Adler


Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. - Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859


In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Daniel L. Reardon




It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. - Lucimar Santos de Lima





The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926


Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure. - Elbert Hubbard


An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. - Helen Rowland





A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative. - Author Unknown


Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. - Oscar Wilde


A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. - Chauncey Mitchell Depew


There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. - Mark Twain





I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. - Walt Disney


If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" - Lemony Snicket





The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde


How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? - Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972


an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience.
- Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel, 1927





The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923


Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. - Author Unknown