The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin 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
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this… — James Branch Cabell 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
“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
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart… — William George Jordan 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
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti 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
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 am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller 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
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. To express this point figuratively we… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“His (my father's) general belief in life's well-being worked either way. 'Have you ever had it before? You have? It's not going… — Eudora Welty 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
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
