Pessimist Quotes
241 Pessimist quotes by 176 unique authors
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
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I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
— Spike Lee
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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to…
— Harvey Mackay
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Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They…
— Harvey Mackay
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
— Don Marquis
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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man…
— Eugenio Montale
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
— Jack Nicholson
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I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
— Christopher Nolan
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
— Laurence J. Peter
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
— Jean Rostand
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
— Albert Schweitzer
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The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then…
— Sylvester Stallone
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
— Harry S. Truman
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
— Mark Twain
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
— Mark Twain
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the…
— Peter Ustinov
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
— Bill Vaughan
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
— Oscar Wilde
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
— George Will
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
— Walter Winchell
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I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
— Eugene O'Neill
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Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas Friedman
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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Who Wrote These Pessimist Quotes
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