“You may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I’m a pessimist.” — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger. — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cynicism. Let's really enjoy Christmas, with all that's going on in the world. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
“If division and negitivity is overcoming goodness and if darkness is overtaking the light...don't blame mother nature. She's just basking in her… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
We must push all negativity from our minds thru positive thinking and knowing that there is a higher power that will see… — Wanda Samples Copy Share Image
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Protect yourself against the venomous attacks of jealous and envious people by eliminating them from your life. Whether it’s family, friends, or… — Dwaun S. Cox Copy Share Image
“But regardless of his motive, words can be destructive. As Proverbs 18:21 points out, life and death are in the power of… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“To be cynical is to be distant. While offering a false intimacy of being "in the know," cynicism actually destroys intimacy. It… — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“Preserve the part of you that's still human. Avoid falling into ecstatic raptures and trying to impose the Light on people when… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“You face the reality, whether it’s hopeful or hopeless. What’s your alternative? To lie down and die? Sometimes people ask me, are… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated. — Dean Ambrose Copy Share Image
You can be stronger than the grip of negativity. Just don't give up the fight. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
It is up to you what you do with the negativity that gets thrown at you. Choose not to be dragged down… — Naz Copy Share Image
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“We all die having lived a full life, even those who die while they are being born.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. — David Landes Copy Share Image
“Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
