An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went… — William Ury Copy Share Image
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
So I was looking up quotes. Many clicked the thumbs up symbol. When only few clicked the thumbs down. It made me… — Rocco Rippolone Copy Share Image
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Decisions are hard to make, when you don't have a choice, life is hard to live, when you are suffering inside, the… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
“Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no.… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can… — Lester Frank Ward Copy Share Image
“Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist -… — N.C. Thomas Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the motivator of today's world, kindness is the reality of yesterday's world, empowerment is our de faux of tomorrows world. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
“Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Yes, you will feel like giving up. Yes, your competitors will copy you. Yes, your critics will attack you. Yes, your cynics… — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“life and death are in the power of the tongue. If you lend credence to a continual onslaught of negativity, whether self-inflicted… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“When you travel mentally from a low point to a high point, the ensuing inspiration eclipses the negativity of the initial downfall.” — Raoul Davis Jr Copy Share Image
“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy.… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“I’m a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without… — Naima Simone Copy Share Image
I'm not a fool and I won't be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
