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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

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

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

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. — Harvey MacKay

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. — Ted Koppel

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

I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. — Lisa Kleypas

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. — Sean O'Faolain

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. — Wes Fesler

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 optimists
or 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

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

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

Pessimists can be such bores, and it's lazy to believe the worst. — Paul Morley

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford

Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented. — Ivanka Trump

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. — Elias Canetti

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

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. — Ouida

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

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. — Simon Sinek

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. — Arthur C. Brooks