If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“Keep shining bright, even when others try to dim your light. Their negativity is just a reflection of their own insecurities.” — G.K. Dutta Copy Share Image
We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy. — Antanas Mockus Copy Share Image
One thing that makes a dream impossible for us to achieve is the fear of failure. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw.” — Maloy Krishna Dhar Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain… — Deitrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion,… — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
“Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“No one wants to believe that life is random. My dad says he doesn’t know where my cynicism comes from, but I’m… — Nicola Yoon 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
“The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“After the Age of Pericles, as Athenian confidence dimmed, that famous confidence was all too often replaced by cynicism, modesty by cockiness,… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I’ve recently discovered what I suspected all along – cynicism is overrated and overvalued. It’s the shield people hide behind in the… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love,… — El-P Copy Share Image
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the… — Thomas Buckner Copy Share Image
“Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward 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
“The good thing about being a pessimist is that I'm either always right, or pleasantly surprised.” — Robin Ayers Copy Share Image
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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 do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference. — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity. — Tulisa Copy Share Image
For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 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
