The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. Winston Churchill.
I am an optimist. But I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat. Harold Wilson
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. Carl Sandburg