I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. (Quote by - Thomas A. Buckner)

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. (Quote by - Billy Connolly)

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism. (Quote by - George Santayana)

I thank my darling Camilla, who has stood with me through thick and thin - and whose precious optimism and humour have seen me through. (Quote by - Prince Charles)

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. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. (Quote by - Louise Brown)

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass. (Quote by - Ron Jaworski)

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays. (Quote by - David Landes)

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time. (Quote by - John Hench)

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated. (Quote by - Albert Meltzer)

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. (Quote by - Antonio Gramsci)

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. (Quote by - Robert Hewison)

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. (Quote by - Hal Borland)

Optimism is the key. (Quote by - Will Champion)

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)