After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — 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
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can… — Robert A. Heinlein 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 don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The optimist says, the cup is half full. The pessimist says, the cup is half empty. The child of God says; My… — Daniella Whyte Copy Share Image
“The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than… — Matt Lauer 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
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The pessimist says It can't be done. The optimist says It can be done. But the enthusiastic just says I just did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full. The Pessimist Says The Glass Is Half Empty... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward 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
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin 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
“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.” ― Mike Royko” — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Life is a gift for an optimist, punishment for a pessimist, and an opportunity for an opportunist — 5h45hvut Copy Share Image
I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
