The Best Quotes on Optimism

I like to think this is the best collection of quotes ever compiled. I'm an optimist. Here are some of the best quotes about optimism...

Unfortunately, I've often observed this one to be true..
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
--James Branch Cabell

For all the writers out there...
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
--Robert Brault

This one just made me laugh. It's probably true, and pretty ironic...
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
--Havelock Ellis

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

This one's a little math-heavy, but if you recognize the terms, it's a powerful statement...
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
--Colin Powell

I like to think very well of my surgeons...
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
--Oscar Wilde

Because they're always coming up roses?...
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
--Susan J. Bissonette

Yeah, some people will make you think this way...
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
--Paul Fussell

I kind of hope this is true...
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
--Peter Ustinov

He makes a very good point...
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
--Sir Winston Churchill

I'm not this optimistic...
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
--Irv Kupcinet

I'm going to think long and hard about this one the next time I have a project I'm considering giving up on...
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
--Robert G. Allen

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