No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“more cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The optimist sees an opportunity, the pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now… — Mark Martin Copy Share Image
The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Problems,obstacles,or whatever name you pessimistically choose to call them are optimistically a puzzle the universe presents for you in your existence,so that… — Bobi Anthony Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!” — Madeleine Urban Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be right and be a pessimist,” Szilard concluded.24” — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is better to be an optimist (a positive-minded person) because being a pessimist will get you nowhere. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Nothing worries the pessimist like the optimist who says there is nothing to worry about. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.” — Nicholas Proffitt Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimist than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist,” Lesslie Newbigin once said. “Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” — Tim Chaddick Copy Share Image
A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in OPPORTUNITY. — Araba Copy Share Image
