Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
“I tend to be a real optimist because I just find that pessimism is an indulgence and despair is kind of an… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
For the longest time I was just trying to find someone to love as much as I loved you, but now I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“In spite of his painful encounters with the world and its problems, Solomon does not recommend either pessimism or cynicism. Rather, he… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer,… — John Barth Copy Share Image
We experience perception of negativity or upsetting circumstances because we make our self deprived of taking the challenge in positive frame of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
The nature of journalism has been the enemy of idealism and the source of cynicism among American reporters and editors throughout our… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
You can achieve as much as you believe you can. If you think you can do something, then you can. If you… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“Optimism and positivity are very valuable to learning perfect mindfulness. Pessimism and negativity make it much harder to achieve expertise in attaining… — Andrew Daley Copy Share Image
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
I think that's the biggest thing for me is that we can get caught in the world of so much negativity. You're… — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune… — Dana White Copy Share Image
Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
DISREGARD AND REPLACE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS WITH POSITIVE ONES. EVEN IF YOU STARTED THINKING SOMETHING PESSIMISTIC , JUST TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I feel positive about what I do. And, whoever is doing reggae, they have to have positive words and no negativity. They… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
“How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current… — Donna Quesada Copy Share Image
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't start something because of fear because they're scared of a negative outcome. Whereas I believe if you… — Anthony Yarde Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Today I am embracing any adversity in my life. Today I will surf the waves of negativity and see how it is… — Betsy Henry Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
