Optimists Quotes

“...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists.""I find that hard to believe""Of course you do, you're an optimist. You have a misguided belief that things will go your way. You don't see the dangers till it's too late. Pessimists are more realistic. "That seems like a sad way to govern your life.""It's a safe way to govern your life.”

“People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.”

“Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”

“Optimists are usually inexperienced.”

“Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.”

“Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.”

“Optimists often kill themselves when they realize they can't be optimists anymore.”

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”

“Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those … you’ve got a word for it, don’t you?”“Idiots?”He looked sideways at her. “It was a different one I had in mind.”“Optimists.”“That’s the one. I’m an optimist.”“How’s it working out for you?”“Not great, but I keep hoping.”“That’s optimists. You bastards never learn.”

“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.”