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| En opimist kan se ett ljus där det inte finns något, men varför måse alltid pessimisten skynda för att släcka det? | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| En pessimist är en man som tycker att alla kvinnor är dåliga. En optimist är en som hoppas att de är det. | Chauncey Depew (1834-1928) |
| Det sner stadig. Og det fryser. Men vi har ikke haft et jordskælv for nylig. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Optimisme er den mest ekstreme form for dumdristighed. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Møder du nogen i det daglige, der ikke er frisk nok til at smile, så giv ham dit. Der er ingen, der mere trænger til smil end dem, der ikke selv kan smile. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Optimisme er den tilfredshed, der ses hos små mænd i høje stillinger | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| En optimist løber risikoen for at tabe.En pessimist går glip af chancen for at vinde. | Nazrat Inayat Khan |
| Vær aldrig pessimistisk.. En pessimist har oftere ret end en optimist, men en optimist har det sjovere, og ingen af dem kan livets gang. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Optimisten hævder, vi lever i den bedste af alle tænkelige verdener, og pessimisten frygter, at det passer. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| Optimisten tror, at dette er den bedste af alle verdener, og pessimisten ved det. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated | Albert Meltzer (1920-) |
| I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will | Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) |
| An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. | Bill Vaughn |
| A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. | Chauncey Depew (1834-1928) |
| Teaching is the greatest act of optimism | Colleen Wilcox |
| In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. | Daniel L. Reardon |
| In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip | Daniel L. Reardon |
| Optimism is the true moral courage | Ernest Shakleton |
| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. | G. B. Stern |
| That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. | George Foreman (1949-) |
| I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat | Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995) |
| An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. | Irv Kupcinet (1912-2003) |
| The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. | James Reston (1909-1995) |
| I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. | Joan Rivers (1933-) |
| A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them. | Leonard L. Levinson (1904-) |
| Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy | Louise Imogen Guiney |
| Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality | Oliver Pell |
| I find nothing more depressing than optimism | Paul Fussell (1924-) |
| Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. | Paul J. Meyer |
| What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. | Raymond Aron (1905-) |
| Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough. | Richard M. DeVos |
| The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. | Robert Brault |
| An optimist is the human personification of spring. | Susan J. Bissonette |
| No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can. | Bern Williams |
| Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h | Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) |
| An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. | George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. | William Arthur Ward |
| An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. | Bill Vaughn |
| Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. | William Arthur Ward |
| An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be | William Arthur Ward |
| The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. | William Arthur Ward |
| The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. | Robert Brault |
| Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. | Daniel L. Reardon |
| In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. | Daniel L. Reardon |
| The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat | Sir Harold Wilson (1916-1995) |
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. | Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) |
| An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| 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 (1858-1950) |
| A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will | Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) |
| Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me. | Depeche Mode |
| I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. | Earl Weaver (1930-) |
| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant- the digitalis of failure | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. | G. B. Stern |
| A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is. | Heinz Ruehman (1902-) |
| Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. | James Reston (1909-1995) |
| Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Optimist: Day-dreamer in his small clothes | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The basis of optimism is sheer terror. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. | Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981) |
| I'm in a wonderful position; I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. | Pierre S. DuPont IV (1935-) |
| There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. | Stephen Hawking (1942-) |
| No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. | W. R. Inge |
| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |