“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If you expect defeat, that's what you will get, instead free your mind of negativity, so the impossible can become possible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. — Alan Cohen 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 optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pessimist says It can't be done. The optimist says It can be done. But the enthusiastic just says I just did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I have tough skin. I don't really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don't accept that much negativity… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“Cultural pessimism is always fashionable, and since we are human, there are always grounds for it. It has the negative consequence of… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg 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
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
I guess when your heart gets broken, you begin to see the cracks in everything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty” — Merc Copy Share Image
“Check your negativity at the door... otherwise go away and never come back!” — Michael Baisden Copy Share Image
“cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you'll end up losing what you have… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We have to talk about the negativity, but we have to enjoy the beauty of what this country, culturally, has done. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
The best part of being a pessimist is that you either prove yourself right or you get pleasantly suprised!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
