“Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision,” — Candy Paull Copy Share Image
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If we haven’t got a goal we are much more likely to sink into horrid negativity” — Ben Hunt-Davis Copy Share Image
“You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked.” — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn. ” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
“So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the… — Shalom Auslander 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
“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. "When you… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like… — Manu Chao 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
“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
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t this make you sad, Ferdinand?” He shrugged his shoulders. “Cynical, if you like. One is sad when one thinks about life—cynical… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“When you flood your mind with negativity, doubt, and inability, you interrupt, interfere, and block movement toward possibility. ” Excerpt From: Sarah… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel… — Dan Brown 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
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist.… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not a belief that things will get worse, either for the individual or the species—it is more profoundly a rejection… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
