I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive. – James Baldwin
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it. – Jules Renard
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I’m not an optimist. I’m a realist… or maybe even a pessimist. – Clay Aiken
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else. – Earl Weaver
And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me. – Molly Ivins
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. – Lyn Nofziger
As a Liverpool fan, I’m an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005. – Katarina Johnson-Thompson