Pessimist Quotes · Page 3

“Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.”

— Nicholas Proffitt

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

— Spike Lee

Always borrow money from a pessimist.he will never expect it back.

— Ace Kid

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

— Robin Sharma

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

— Robert Del Naja

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

— William Beveridge

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

— Oscar Wilde

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap…

— Anonymous

You can be a pessimist and say Life sucks or you can be a optimist and says Life gets better.

— Anonymous

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise…

— Albert Schweitzer

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

— Mason Cooley

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

— George Will

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can…

— Spike Lee

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one…

— Victor Cherbuliez

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.…

— Norman Cousins

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist…

— Anonymous

Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't…

— Ben Rector

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your…

— Bob Iger

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an…

— Nicholas Hoult

Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need…

— Rush Limbaugh

The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up.…

— Brandon Sanderson

In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a…

— Robert Ringer

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had…

— Jean Webster

“Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that—with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music—can…

— Thomas Ligotti

If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in…

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Matthieu Ricard

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…

— Martin Seligman

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

— Colin Mochrie

“A cynic is just a pessimist trying to be optomistic.”

— John Walter Scott

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

— Rex Stout

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

— Robert G. Allen

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

— Ellen Ullman

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

— Idries Shah

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

— Sean O Faolain

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.

— Laurence J. Peter