Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You will be surrounded by negativity but you shall overcome it with positivity.” — Alcurtis Turner Copy Share Image
“I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There's a lot of negativity in the world. I'm trying to be positive. — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Our attitude defines our mindset towards situation.A mindset with positive attitude responds in positive way to demanding situation while mindset with negativity… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The psychologists have a term — emotional contagion. When other people are acting a certain way around you, you tend to absorb… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“the philosophical cure to anxiety is not optimism but rather pessimism. optimism says “the world is beautiful and there’s no reason to… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
There are certain reactions that you aren't allowed to show in Berlin, for example that you feel offended. If you do, the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels… — Dianne Robbins Copy Share Image
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
“High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.” — Mollie Marti Copy Share Image
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace. — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity. Always be positive. — Jeramae Panabia Copy Share Image
If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
