Optimism Pessimism Quotes
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
— Orison Swett Marden
The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.
— John Taliaferro
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
— Jeffrey R. Holland
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
— Charlie Chaplin
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
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
— Patricia Ireland
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
— William Shakespeare
The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.
— Wes Fesler
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
— Antonio Gramsci
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
— William Arthur Ward
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.
— Miguel De Unamuno
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
— Jim Leach
Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
— Wes Fesler
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
— William Arthur Ward
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
— Norman Cousins
If you live feeling likeYour glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way. — Mattie J.T. Stepanek
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
— Francis Parker Yockey
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
— Hector Hugh Munro
When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
— Geraldine Brooks
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
— Aldous Huxley
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
— William James
You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?
— Jim Butcher
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.
— Esther Hicks
To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
— Criss Jami
Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. I always got out before the euphoria.
— Jennifer Handford
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
— Joey Comeau
To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with
— Kurt Vonnegut
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
— David Landes
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
— Orison Swett Marden
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
— Mark Twain
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Doubt never brings anything better; Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
— Pat Conroy
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
— Antonio Gramsci
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
— David Myers
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.
— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
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
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.
— Michel De Montaigne
in recent years, some psychologists have reached the conclusion that pessimism may often be as healthy and productive as optimism. At
— Oliver Burkeman
The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.
— Marcel Proust
Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
— G.K. Chesterton
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
— Bruce Springsteen
Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas L. Friedman
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin. — Voltaire
Pessimism never won any battle.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
— Criss Jami
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
— Steve Toltz
Open you eyes to the world around you.. Block out the screams of pessimism.. Release your inhibitions!
— Nike Thaddeus
Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.
— Daniel Willey
There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.
— Kayla Krantz
We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.
— Marty Rubin
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience"."What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God. — Jonathan Kellerman
Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.
— C. JoyBell C.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
— James Branch Cabell
Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
— Edmund Campion
The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.
— Lou Andreas-Salome
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.
— Rowena Cory Daniells
Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
— Jonathan Harnisch
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
— Doris Lessing
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
— Max Beerbohm
