Optimism And Pessimism Quotes

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Always look on the bright side of life.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

We live in the best of all possible worlds

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.