If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Check your negativity at the door... otherwise go away and never come back!” — Michael Baisden Copy Share Image
“cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you'll end up losing what you have… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty” — Merc Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you play a long time and you get a little older, you can get a little skeptical and become a little… — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
“It is because I reject lies and running away that I am accused of pessimism; but this rejection implies hope — the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control. — John Kessel 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
“It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity… — John Claude Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, 'Misery loves company.' I am also… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I guess when your heart gets broken, you begin to see the cracks in everything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
The pessimist says It can't be done. The optimist says It can be done. But the enthusiastic just says I just did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negativity and fear of failure are the biggest hurdles in success and achieving the goals in life. — Anurag Prakash Ray 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
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
