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

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God it makes you an optimist.

Which is I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment I think might be what love is because they both grow from their relationship.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say 'Well look something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

My deepest impulses are optimistic an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

My friends love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.