Pessimism Quotes · Page 46

Not many people appreciate or respects the value of getting married anymore. The Digital Era made sure of that.

— Mikel Musial

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

— John Callaway

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

— Ralph Marston

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

— Stephen Fry

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

— Matthew Quick

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back

— Nateman

Some people are just not right in the brain until they totally sabotage your happiness.

— Isaiah Harden (Me

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

— Bergen Evans

I work from a position of positivity always. I don't dwell on negativity, and I always believe something better's on the horizon.

— Joe Maddon

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or…

— Miguel de Unamuno

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it…

— Amy Jackson

“The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which…

— Sun Myung Moon

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in…

— Uta Ranke-Heinemann

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as…

— George W. Bush

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion…

— René Girard

“A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what’s required to manifest unwavering positive thought…

— H.E. Davey

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

“Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Cynics build no bridges; they make no discoveries; no gaps are spanned by them. Cynics may pride themselves in being realistic in…

— Paul L. McKay

Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the…

— Matthieu Ricard

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more…

— George Carlin

“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally…

— Emil M. Cioran

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

— Jonathan Kellerman

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

— Anonymous

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

— Swami Satchidananda

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

— Elon Musk

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

— Jeremy Paxman

I have learned to remain positive amongst the negativity and truly rise above...Forward is the motion!

— Anonymous

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

— Anonymous

“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.”

— Leo Tolstoy

There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist.

— Quinta Brunson

“Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool.”

— Jay Asher

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

— Ouida

Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good

— Anonymous

“The whole world has constantly wandered around in ‘negativity’ and died. This ‘Akram’ [science] is a fine ‘positive’ path.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

— Anonymous