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Pessimism Quotes by William James
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
More Pessimism Quotes
- 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
- You can never plan the future by the past. — Edmund Burke
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill
- I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston Churchill
- 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
- Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to… — Bruce Lee
- Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual… — Alfred Binet
- In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. — Esther Hicks
- We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne
- Pessimism does win us great happy moments. — Max Beerbohm
- I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison
- We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson