To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” — John Maxwell Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to success in almost any endeavor is powerlessness, negativity, helplessness, and inertia — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
At a time of pervasive cynicism about our government, it is more important than ever to invest in restoring confidence in our… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
“Our notion of an optimist is a man who, knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
A person with positivity looks for possibility in every opportunity. A person with negativity sees impossibility and lame excuses in every opportunity. — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Getting Back Up is hard when you talk yourself down. Frustration towards yourself, feeds itself. Use uplifting words to motivate yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to… — Tamar Myers Copy Share Image
“After that exercise, the ship of my life might or might not be sailing on calm seas. The challenging days of my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“How can we drop negativity, as you suggest? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Every culture has a myth of decline from some golden age, and almost all peoples throughout history have been pessimists. Even today… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic… — Willem Lange Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Always look on the bright side. Why are some people just so tuned in to negativity? Everything they say or do is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
“But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right… — Nancy Oliver Copy Share Image
There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
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