Fall Quote by William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

— John Maxwell

“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the most important…

— Thomas Buckner

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

— William Arthur Ward

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves.”

— Bill Vaughan

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

— Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

— Mark Twain

“An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who…

— Milan Kundera

“tell them that both optimists and pessimists die in the end, but the optimist leads a hopeful and happy existence while the pessimist spends…

— Shimon Peres

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand…

— Christian D. Larson

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

— Roger Scruton

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

— G B Stern