A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Sometimes in my tears I drown but I never let it get me down. So when negativity surrounds I know someday it'll… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Always look for the good in every situation you face. And you'll go further in life than you could ever go with… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in… — Caster Semenya Copy Share Image
Negativity is a gift as it makes you aware of your shortcomings & to mend ways. It makes you to learn way… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Impatience is a very destructive feeling. It can cause you a lot of stress and disappointment. Impatience is a negative emotion. Negative… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“Just know that it is impossible to feel joy while you are feeling cynicism. It is like wearing tight shoes and trying… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Negativity perpetuates itself, breeds dissatisfaction and clutters the mind. And when the mind is cluttered with negativity, happiness is much harder to… — Rashida Rowe 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment that the worlds gonna come crashing down. — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Life is an endurance race that is always devouring your soul from the inside and out. In the end the race is… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“The beauty in the outer world can only be seen, when one stops focusing on the negativity in their inner world.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.” — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
“Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.” — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
If you let go of negativity and fear of change you will realize that all is always well in the universe. — Philip Arnold Copy Share Image
I had a lot of negativity growing up, so I understand how to block the negativity out. — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
