“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.” — Robin Ayers Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” — John Maxwell Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.” ― Mike Royko” — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
