A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough… — Wayne Dyer 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
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
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
I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an… — Meghan McCain 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
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt 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
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman 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
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
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'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
“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
