Pessimist Quotes · Page 8

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

— Mike Royko

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

— Carlos Slim

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

— Antonio Gramsci

“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip

— Anonymous

A pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.

— Anonymous

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist

— Mark Twain

“The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half…

— Weike Wang

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

— Anonymous

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it…

— Orson Bean

“Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important…

— Jayce O'Neal

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought…

— Cate Blanchett

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head.…

— Bill Ayers

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly…

— Adam Savage

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,…

— Rowan Williams

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of…

— Helen Keller

we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in…

— Matthieu Ricard

“He smacked his lips, tasting the fifth brand, and holding up the glass looked through the amber at the light. "This is…

— Rex Stout

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,…

— Jane Rule

“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a…

— Anna Funder

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…

— Martin Seligman

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are…

— William DeWitt Hyde

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill

— Anonymous

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

— Harvey Mackay

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

— Rondal Partridge

I am a huge pessimist, and I think that's just the east-coast Jew in me.

— Ben Feldman

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

— Tyler Cowen

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

— Oscar Wilde

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

— James Lovelock

“I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist but you can never put a puzzle together with the two…

— Austin V. Songer

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

— Ellen Ullman

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

— Katharine Whitehorn

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

— Jan Smuts

We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find.

— Eddy Alvarez

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

— Sean O Faolain

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

— Laurence J. Peter