America Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

— Ron Fournier

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

— Howard Zinn

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

— Peter Thiel

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

— Peter Schwartz

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

— David House

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

— Alan Greenspan

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a growing disenchantment…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

— Ron Currie Jr

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

— Charlie Munger

The future struggles that it may not become the past.

— Anonymous

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

— Benjamin Carson