Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing:… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We all deal with our inner pessimist. We just try to find as much positivity as we can find. — Eddy Alvarez 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
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’… — Steven Galloway Copy Share Image
A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist. — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist but you can never put a puzzle together with the two… — Austin V. Songer Copy Share Image
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida Copy Share Image
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers. — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist,” Lesslie Newbigin once said. “Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” — Tim Chaddick 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
