Pessimist Quotes

241 Pessimist quotes by 176 unique authors

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the… — Helen Keller
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. — Eric Sevareid
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. — Mark Twain
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that… — Victor Cherbuliez
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it… — Oscar Wilde
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths… — Anthony Burgess
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. — David Harley
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that… — Matthieu Ricard
Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says â€˜Oh dear, things canâ€™t possibly get any worse.â€™ And an optimist… — Steven Galloway
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 that everything's connected… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The… — Robert Ringer
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. — Clay Aiken
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we… — Bill Gates

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