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
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being a pessimist is you’re always either completely right or pleasantly surprised.” — JK Neve 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
I'd rather be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. — Drake Copy Share Image
To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George Will Copy Share Image
“Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important… — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik 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
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise… — Albert Schweitzer 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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
You can be a pessimist and say Life sucks or you can be a optimist and says Life gets better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in OPPORTUNITY. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“a pessimist finds difficulty at every opportunity but an optimist finds opportunity in every difficulty” — Merc Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
An optimist makes the impossible possible. A pessimist makes the possible impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best part of being a pessimist is that you either prove yourself right or you get pleasantly suprised!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go… — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!' — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I'm always naturally a bit of a pessimist. And my mom is sorta the opposite. — John Collins Copy Share Image
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
