“In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal prophecy.” — David Brin Copy Share Image
The way people treat each other in society is cruel but in retrospect history shows the cynicism is evident in all. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Negativity may knock at your door, but that don't mean you have to let it in. — Brittany Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Good things happen when you distance yourself from negativity and those who create it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“I’m a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without… — Naima Simone Copy Share Image
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you continually allow the fear of failure to dictate your decisions, your dreams may never come true. Instead of allowing fear… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone to the pains of arguing… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Life is indeed the reflection of choices we make in every aspects per se. If your choices were compatible to your efficiency… — Chandlrababu VS Copy Share Image
“They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
