Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Pessimistic labels lead to passivity, whereas optimistic ones lead to attempts to change.” — Martin E.P. Seligman Copy Share Image
I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing. — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
“No matter what happens, good or bad, Romanians will embrace it with hard-core cynicism.” — Maria Elena Sandovici Copy Share Image
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being… — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
When you doubt and have negative thoughts you become your own enemy. Believe in yourself and push yourself to greater heights with… — Benjamin Valadez Copy Share Image
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset. — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
Yoga is not pessimistic. You may be optimistic or pessimistic; yoga is neither. If you are pessimistic, you cannot enter on the… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“exploring the middle ground between the two. Robert J. Sampson measured the level of cynicism and willingness to work for the common… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,… — Ed Mayo Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Medicinal Spirit, Inside Mirror Therapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels, No one knows how to upscale another,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
I am, by nature, not optimistic: my fellow drag queens would probably describe me as a pessimist. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it. — JaVale McGee Copy Share Image
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
“The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Don't worry bout the people who aren't happy for you. They probably aren't happy for themselves, either. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you look at a field of dandelions you can either see a hundred weeds or a hundred wishes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good. — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
