Optimism Quotes

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

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

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 stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Bill Vaughan

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
- Robert Brault

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

There is a danger when I speak in English that you will get misunderstanding, because I use the wrong word. Sometimes I confuse the words pessimism and optimism.
- Tenzin Gyatso

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis

I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.
- Ronald Reagan