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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
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
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
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
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
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 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 is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
— Chauncey Depew
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
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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 twicebigger than necessary. — Sudeep Nagarkar
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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
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 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
