The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“I like to think of my people as mute optimists - leave the elephant alone and, eventually, perhaps with the help of… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
I do not propose to solve the Israeli-Palestine conflict. But I do think the world would be a vastly safer place -… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m one of those …… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“A handsome young lady of quality,' a parable in Mahaparinirvana-sutra tells us, 'who carries with her an immense treasure is ever accompanied… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Finally, the optimist’s impatience with or condemnation of pessimism often has a smug macho tone to it (although males have no monopoly… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“Neither these men of the world nor Buddhist ascetics can be optimists. The latter rigorously deny themselves sensual gratifications, and keep themselves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There are different types of people in the world. There are people who accept what's in front of them unquestioningly. The live… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
“As you rusticate, you'll encounter beauty and ugliness, peace and danger. But it will be real and of the earth. I'm an… — Linda Leaming Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
