America Quote by Ron Fournier

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works…

— Lawrence Reed

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

— Adrienne Rich

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

— Arnold Bennett

“Pessimism, by contrast, prepares us for a world that is constantly changing and surprising us. It tells us to banish our expectations and the…

— Jacob Graham

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it…

— Richard Rodriguez

Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does…

— John Podhoretz

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw…

— B. C. Forbes

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with…

— George Weigel

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

— Howard Zinn

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But…

— Jesmyn Ward

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

— Anonymous

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

— Emile Chartier