I am an optimist about America.

- Anthony Lewis

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

- Emily Mortimer

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

- Elbert Hubbard

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

- Earl Weaver

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

- Don Marquis

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

- Chauncey Depew

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'm an eternal optimist.

- Brian O'Driscoll

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

- Betty White

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

- Antonio Gramsci

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

- Al Gore

I'm an un-healable positive optimist.

- Andre Rieu

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

- Abbie Cornish

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

- Armando Iannucci

I'm an optimist.

- Ariel Sharon

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

- Anthony Fauci

I am an optimist of the first order.

- Alice Waters

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

- Alice Waters

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

- Aziz Ansari

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger