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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
— Daniel Reardon
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 stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
— J. Oswald Sanders
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
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
— Winston S. Churchill
The pessimist says, 'It can't get any worse!' And the optimist replies, 'Oh yes it can!
— Madeleine Urban
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
— Ada Leverson
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
— William Arthur Ward
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
— William Arthur Ward
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
— Rene Descartes
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
— Kahlil Gibran
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
— Albert Einstein
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
— William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
— James Branch Cabell
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
— Jean De La Fontaine
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 is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
— Ralph Waldo Trine
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
— Chauncey Depew
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— George Bernard Shaw
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
— Mark Twain
You can discern the pessimist from the optimist by just looking at how people react to snow.
— Iveta Cherneva
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
— Mark Twain
An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.
— Debasish Mridha
The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.
— Paulo Coelho
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.
— Debasish Mridha
An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree; a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimistbut you can never put a puzzle together
with the two of the same pieces. — Austin V. Songer
The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
— Vladimir Bukovsky
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
— Oscar Wilde
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
Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
— Jonathan Harnisch
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
— Mark Twain
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
— Laurence J. Peter
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
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
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 sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?
— Debasish Mridha
Pessimist, are you?""I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions. — Charles Martin
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I don't know if the optimistsor the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter
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
The pessimist focuses on the storm;the optimist looks forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
— Nicholas Proffitt
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
— Harry Truman
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
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realistwhile you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner
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
An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
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
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I am not a pessimist.Just a well informed optimist. — Antonio Gala
The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.
— Robert Kirkman
When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table. — Matshona Dhliwayo
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.
— G.K. Chesterton
The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...
— James Minter
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Winston S. Churchill
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
— Jack Nicholson
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
— Mark Twain
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
The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
— Randall Munroe
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
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
— Martin Seligman
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
The optimist is a pessimist with a plan
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
— Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.
— Debasish Mridha
