I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. — Drake Copy Share Image
I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite. — John Collins 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
“Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Doug Dandridge Copy Share Image
“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.” ― Mike Royko” — Mike Royko 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
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the… — Amos Tversky Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” — John Maxwell 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
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé 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
“Winston Churchill once quipped, “The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” He went… — William Ury Copy Share Image
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I… — John Grant Copy Share Image
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“Common wisdom provides us with the maxims: Beware the calm before the storm. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. The… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Problems,obstacles,or whatever name you pessimistically choose to call them are optimistically a puzzle the universe presents for you in your existence,so that… — Bobi Anthony Copy Share Image
I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
An optimist makes the impossible possible. A pessimist makes the possible impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“It is hard to be right and be a pessimist,” Szilard concluded.24” — William Lanouette Copy Share Image
No, I'm not that optimistic, I'm just less pessimist than most of my peers. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
