The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Let optimists rule the world.
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.