Pessimism Quotes

357 quotes by 235 authors

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope.… — Dorothy Rowe
But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these… — Amartya Sen
Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential. — Narendra Modi
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis
Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts… — Rabindranath Tagore
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. — Robert Muller
Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will. — Emile Chartier
What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of… — Jennifer James
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. — Alan Cohen
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly,… — Margo Jones
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. — William J. Clinton
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even… — Samuel Ullman
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can. — Bill Bryson
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we… — Richard L. Evans
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. — David Myers

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