“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The beauty in the outer world can only be seen, when one stops focusing on the negativity in their inner world.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.” — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.” — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
If you expect defeat, that's what you will get, instead free your mind of negativity, so the impossible can become possible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cynicism was a school in Greece - the Cynics. Diogenes is a famous Cynic. There was a strong belief in nihilism and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I've always known negativity comes with the territory and I can accept criticism about my performances, but it is the personal attacks… — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
“the reason why pessimists are recruited among former optimists, since in order to have a black picture of the world it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In reality, I was drowning in negativity. I was stuck playing a part, too afraid to change, too afraid of losing my… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
“Optimism and positivity are very valuable to learning perfect mindfulness. Pessimism and negativity make it much harder to achieve expertise in attaining… — Andrew Daley Copy Share Image
You can achieve as much as you believe you can. If you think you can do something, then you can. If you… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a… — Dr. Katinka van der Merwe Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Negativity and fear of failure are the biggest hurdles in success and achieving the goals in life. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The pessimist says It can't be done. The optimist says It can be done. But the enthusiastic just says I just did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An idle mind is not necessarily a devil's workshop but negative thoughts. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
POSITIVE THINKING LEADS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT NEGATIVITY GETS YOU NO WHERE. — WALTER WILLIAMS Copy Share Image
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Never respond to negativity or ignorance, they are not even worth your time. — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive. — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image