I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist? — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in OPPORTUNITY. — Araba Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. — Mason Cooley 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
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in… — Laurell K. Hamilton 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
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in… — B. C. Forbes 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
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
