An Optimist Pessimist Quotes: top 67 famous quotes about An Optimist Pessimist

An Optimist Pessimist Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational An Optimist Pessimist quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist ... or maybe even a pessimist. — Clay Aiken

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full. — Josiah Stamp

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist. — Anthony Jeselnik

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. — David Souter

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either. — Nate Lowman

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer. — Rondal Partridge

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. — Helen Keller

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be. — Elie Wiesel

I walked out of that office with my survey still in the box, unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist? Neither. A fool. I — Jay Asher

Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool. — Jay Asher

An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? — Rene Descartes

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. — Eyedea

The short-lived crash and burn of an eternal optimist is far more deeply felt than the day-to-day misery of an eternal pessimist. — Gregor Collins

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist. — Laurence J. Peter

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. — Mark Twain

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. — Robert G. Allen

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein

An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities. — Lewis Mumford

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist. — Nick Bostrom

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow. — Eric Sevareid

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. — Jean De La Fontaine

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little. — Mark Twain

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. — Elbert Hubbard

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back. — Munia Khan

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. — David Harley

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are. — Chauncey Depew

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

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem. — Harry S. Truman

An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree;
a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire. — Matshona Dhliwayo

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. — Debasish Mridha

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool. — Debasish Mridha

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist. — Jules Breton

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. — Max Lerner

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it. — Debasish Mridha

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic. — Albert Schweitzer

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist. — Stanislaw Ulam

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. — Harry Truman

Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt

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

For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary. — Sudeep Nagarkar

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. — Rex Stout

Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions. — Charles Martin

An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life? — Debasish Mridha

To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. — Abel Aganbegyan

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes. — Julian Tuwim

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. — Idries Shah

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise. — Milan Kundera

A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness. — Debasish Mridha

An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. — Laurence J. Peter

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country. — Helen Rowland

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance? — Elizabeth Peters

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right — Mark Twain

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Winston S. Churchill

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

When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table. — Matshona Dhliwayo