Pessimism Quotes · Page 23

You can be stronger than the grip of negativity. Just don't give up the fight.

— Bilal Zahoor

It is up to you what you do with the negativity that gets thrown at you. Choose not to be dragged down…

— Naz

“You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I’m a pessimist.”

— Martha Wells

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

— William Arthur Ward

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

— Mason Cooley

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

— Richard Ford

No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.

— Urijah Faber

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.

— Carrie Brownstein

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in…

— Caster Semenya

Impatience is a very destructive feeling. It can cause you a lot of stress and disappointment. Impatience is a negative emotion. Negative…

— Anil Sinha

Always look for the good in every situation you face. And you'll go further in life than you could ever go with…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying…

— Suzanne Finnamore

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human…

— Jaron Lanier

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be…

— Andrew Mellon

Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to…

— Lucy Dacus

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no…

— Helen Keller

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had…

— Jean Webster

There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call…

— Rick Warren

“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they…

— G.K. Chesterton

Problems,obstacles,or whatever name you pessimistically choose to call them are optimistically a puzzle the universe presents for you in your existence,so that…

— Bobi Anthony

“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is…

— Dennis Gabor

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant,…

— Klas Pontus Arnoldson

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for…

— Conan O'Brien

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

There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world.

— Bob Newhart

Make it a principle for yourself to no longer accept negativity.

— Tosca Reno

“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.”

— Zoë Heller

“The moment I start losing friends is the moment I start living the positive way and leave the negativity behind.”

— christina riccie

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

— Alain de Botton

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

— Thomas Buckner

He who doesn't dream doesn't do anything else than sleep...even when he is awaken.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

— J. Oswald Sanders

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

— Fay Weldon

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

— Paul Rudd

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

— Anonymous

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

— Helen Fielding

“Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard.”

— J.D. Salinger

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

— William Arthur Ward

There's too much negativity in the world. Staying positive is a better investment.

— Mark Kostabi

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui