We have to use our discontentment to engage rather than disengage - our hope has to be more powerful than our cynicism. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.” — T.H. White Copy Share Image
My first task is to show how great we are as a nation - let's banish the pessimists. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“shall I spend much of your time pointing out the degree to which televisual values influence the contemporary mood of jaded weltschmerz,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
What angers me it takes one idiot to bring negativity to hundreds, thousands and millions of positive role models. Please be open-minded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“If you were determined to get enjoyment out of every moment, you would learn to do whatever it took. What it takes… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
“We're humans, not machines. We have bad days. We have mental difficulties. We are inspired, yet we fail. We are not linear.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
“Negativity is cannibalistic. The more you feed it, the bigger and stronger it grows.” — Bobby Darnell Copy Share Image
Ignorance about the beauty of the future is one of the roots of today's worries. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects. — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. — Marv Albert Copy Share Image
Negativity may knock at your door, but that doesn't mean you have to let it in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people and their negativity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
