If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
I am an optimist and have always been one.
I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.
I'm an optimist by nature.
I am one of those guys that's an optimist. I am always optimistic. I don't know how you can be any other way.
You have to be an optimist to be in politics.
He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
I'm a huge optimist.
I am by nature a worried optimist.
'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
I am an optimist of the first order.
I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.
I'm a recovering optimist.
As for me, I'm an optimist.
An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
