I can't stand people who don't try to make the best of every situation. Negativity bothers me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Envy, jealousy, revenge and negativity are some of the basic instinct of women. They cannot help it. We prefer negative thoughts at… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken. — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier. — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
“Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing… — John Morton Copy Share Image
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“In distributed systems, suspicion, pessimism, and paranoia pay off.” — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
