I am an optimist of the first order.
Alice Waters
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Betty White
I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar
I am an optimist.
Bob Brown
I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard