Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own…

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

— John C. Maxwell

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Martin Seligman

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

— Shimon Peres

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

— Denis Waitley

“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor…

— Vera Nazarian

“Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can move the…

— Thomas Ligotti

The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or…

— Benjamin Hoff

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

— James Branch Cabell

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

— Sean O Faolain

“To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

— Elias Canetti