Optimism Quotes

Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
- Anonymous Author

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

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
- Virginia Woolf

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
- Anonymous Author

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
- W. R. Inge

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
- Robert Brault

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

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
- Agnes Repplier

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
- Robert Brault