Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
If you expect defeat, that's what you will get, instead free your mind of negativity, so the impossible can become possible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The beauty in the outer world can only be seen, when one stops focusing on the negativity in their inner world.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.” — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
“Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.” — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out. — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“When everything's going alright, best thing you can do is sit back and enjoy it till things turn to shit, which they… — Peter Newman Copy Share Image
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness,… — Arthur Cecil Pigou Copy Share Image
“Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a… — Willis Carto Copy Share Image
“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
