How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot 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
“You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked.” — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.” — Shannon L. Alder 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
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
“Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. It is only the truth seeker… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Happy the creators of pessimistic systems! Besides taking refuge in the fact of having made something, they can exult in their explanation… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Use every person's skill set to the fullest. Both optimists and pessimists contribute. An optimist invents the hot air balloon, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
“Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing:… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
“I wrote to my son. ‘Be a pessimist,’ I advised Joseph on his first birthday on 21 November. ‘It is the safest,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
