One thing that makes a dream impossible for us to achieve is the fear of failure. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.” — Rowena Cory Daniells Copy Share Image
“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.” — Robin Ayers Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimistic than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity. — Tulisa Copy Share Image
“motivation to perform well and pessimistic expectations are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they seem to get along famously.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
People say I've change so much. Well, here's the truth. I grew up, I stopped letting people push me around all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who… — Eugenio Montale 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… — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for… — Ashley Wagner Copy Share Image
I rise above negativity. Some try to bring down your spirits...But I'm too blessed to worry about anyone's opinion about nothing in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those with a negative attitude see difficulties and expect defeat and failure, yet it is possible to look at these same problems… — Craig Williams 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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image