Sometimes we tend to focus on the negative and forget all the positive there is in the world. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
If the glass is half empty, it can always be filled, and if the glass is half full, it can always be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity. — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I keep this in mind when I dont know how to stay sane when others show me negativity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that; you will help on by your pessimism action… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Without even realizing it, we magnetize people, opportunities, and outcomes. Many people continue to attract dysfunctional folks who bring trauma, drama, crisis,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists." "I find that hard to believe" "Of course you do,… — Susin Nielsen Copy Share Image
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim Copy Share Image
“Don't give up your greatness because of someone's cynicism or narrowness of mind.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When negativity strikes you, throw it back as you would a ball and let the bully live in misery.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned. — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
“When I was born, the doctor slit my throat to see if I could talk.” — Sean Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It’s not easy maintaining a cynical outlook in the face of what appears to be a thoroughly charitable mindset,” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Negativity breeds negativity, zap its flow as quickly as possible by switching focus or making amends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
All the negativity from the past can be erased in the moment with a single positive action. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
