Pessimists Quotes
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The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.
— Francois Guizot
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
— Francois Guizot
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
— Christina Stead
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
— Shimon Peres
Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
— David Rakoff
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.
— Paul Virilio
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
The pessimist! Whenever something good came along, he knew how to make the worst of it.
— Marty Rubin
We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.
— Rush Limbaugh
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.
Pessimists thrive while optimists starve.
— Zachariah Dracoulis
We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.
— Marty Rubin
To see all pessimists as pessimists is to be a pessimist.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.
— Jonathan Harnisch
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
— John C. Maxwell
People don't like to follow pessimists.
— Bob Iger
Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
— Mason Cooley
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
— Carlos Slim
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
— Denis Waitley
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.
— Marietta Rodgers
Years, and nobody knows why. It may be that Robert Gordon and the techno-pessimists are
— Brink Lindsey
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
— Jean Rostand
I don't know if the optimistsor the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done. — Craig Venter
How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.
— Garrison Keillor
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Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas L. Friedman
Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
— James Branch Cabell
Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man.
— Janny Wurts
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
— Benjamin Graham
Actually he was a pessimist, and, like all pessimists, a ridiculously unobservant man.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Pessimists have only pleasant surprises.
— Nero Wolfe
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
— Timothy Keller
Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.
— Karen Marie Moning
