Optimists Quotes

While there are still more optimists than pessimists, this is the least optimistic that CFOs have been in the last two years. - John Graham

We're now looking at a 3 percent first quarter on top of that 1.4 percent fourth quarter. We've been the optimists, and I haven't been optimistic enough. - David Wyss

We know that income disparities are pretty wide, rural households still have to eke out a living and there is not enough trickle-down from prosperous areas. The key is improving agriculture -- there have been draughts and lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for people to market their crops. But I think in many respects Africans are eternal optimists -- AIDS, hunger and lack of long-term opportunities seem to stand in contrast to the poll. - Robert Bunyi

We are optimists. It's quite possible for us to reach an agreement on the establishment of a joint venture on Russian territory to enrich uranium for Iranian nuclear energy needs. - Vladimir Putin

We are by definition optimists but I think determined would be a better word. It was a first step, an important step, but frankly it was one quarter of very modest profit and we are not stopping. - Fritz Henderson

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. - Lewis Mumford

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion....It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. - Walter Cronkite

Those grey skies are just a chalenge for optimists. - Loesje

This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half... We need a real boost if we're going to reverse some of these trends that are even more negative than we thought they were. - Jared Bernstein

They (the Optimists) have this organized so well. They really have this down. - Rebecca Jones