an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“If a work has started with negativity from the beginning, it ends negatively.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity. — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I like to keep my world positive. There's enough negativity kicking around. — Jim Root Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being… — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
It's easy to get bogged down in all the negativity that when you see people smile and pat you on the back… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can get you wrapped up in the negativity, when that's never been what our community is about. It's always been… — Alex Consani Copy Share Image
“In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I'm getting a little fed up with some of the pessimism that I'm hearing. I know some people who will not be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends… — William DeWitt Hyde Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret about the human condition. Nihilism leads to spirituality. And spirituality leads to nihilism. It is never… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
When some people say only bad things consistently, it implies their unhappiness about their lives. They are thoroughly pessimistic as well. After… — Chandrababu VS Copy Share Image
There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
“I have seen so many extraordinary things that nothing seems extraordinary to me” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
