Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“Human beings are designed to be local optimists and global pessimists.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.” — Stanisław Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
Pessimists have already begun to worry about what is going to replace automation — John Tudor Copy Share Image
“Optimists see the glass as half full. Pessimists see the glass as half empty. Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its… — Bogdan Vaida Copy Share Image
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell 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
Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that… — John Linder Copy Share Image
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
Life is not meant more for the pessimists but for the optimists who see life in every moment and feel every moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is… — Sean Chercover 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
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
“Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the… — Stephan A. Hoeller Copy Share Image
“We're humans, not machines. We have bad days. We have mental difficulties. We are inspired, yet we fail. We are not linear.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“We are not optimists because we can predict a bright and beautiful future, but we're not pessimists either, because the future is… — William Ayers Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“optimistically – get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning, and are spared… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, in order to prove they are right?” — Robert Mallet Copy Share Image
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
My first task is to show how great we are as a nation - let's banish the pessimists. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“Angry people are pessimists who live with a chronic fear of being deemed unworthy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pessimists seem to have a better memory of the bad things that happen in life than they do for the good things… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. — Sean O'Faolain Copy Share Image
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.” — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image