I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to success in almost any endeavor is powerlessness, negativity, helplessness, and inertia — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” — John Maxwell Copy Share Image
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do. — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
People say I've change so much. Well, here's the truth. I grew up, I stopped letting people push me around all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Doug Dandridge 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
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Cynics have observed that those who have benefited the most from “progress”—the citizens of the First World—are the people most inclined to… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
The thoughts people create about us will always reach us. Any wrong karma, invites negative energy from people towards us. If people… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
