The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality — Heywood C Broun Copy Share Image
When you play a long time and you get a little older, you can get a little skeptical and become a little… — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything. — Brooke Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman 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
People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
“In a study of new hire agents at MetLife, the optimists outsold the pessimists by 31 percent.” — Jill Konrath Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you see life as a battle, then a battle is what you will get; the struggle ends when you let go… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“I heard about this man who fell into a pit, and while he was down there several people came by and offered… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. — Elliot Richardson Copy Share Image
“However, perhaps the most insidious aspect of the New Age movement is what I call the Optimism Gestapo, or those who regulate… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behaviour at this time are those… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.” — Ben Franklin Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Negativity and fear of failure are the biggest hurdles in success and achieving the goals in life. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A hopeless person finds a difficulty in every chance.....and a hopeful person finds a chance in every difficulty! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
