Blow Quote by Rene Descartes

The optimist sees an opportunity, the pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity...

— Pacifiersucker

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

— Francois Guizot

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

— Denis Waitley

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

— Mark Twain

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

— Winston Churchill

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

— Shimon Peres

An optimist makes the impossible possible. A pessimist makes the possible impossible.

— Anonymous

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do,…

— Martin Seligman

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

— Roger Scruton

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

— Don Marquis