If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted. — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success. — Jonathan Adler Copy Share Image
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ...… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Your illness is the negativity within you. Turn negative energy into positive energy. Your persona becomes the positivity within you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Problems,obstacles,or whatever name you pessimistically choose to call them are optimistically a puzzle the universe presents for you in your existence,so that… — Bobi Anthony Copy Share Image
“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
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