Famous quote by Edward Steichen

Mobile Desktop

"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism"

- Edward Steichen

Optimist

About the Author

This quote is written / told by Edward Steichen between March 27, 1879 and March 25, 1973. He/she was a famous Photographer from USA. The author also have 12 other quotes.

Go to author profile

Similar Quotes

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"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, Musician

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

Winston Churchill, Statesman