Optimist Vs Pessimist Quotes

#1. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. 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

#3. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Rex Stout

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

Mark Twain

#5. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?

Debasish Mridha

#6. I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

#7. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

#8. I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

#9. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Mark Twain

#10. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

#11. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

David Harley

#12. But it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

Charles Williams

#13. 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

#14. The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#15. I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

#16. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

J. Oswald Sanders

#18. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#19. A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

Victor Cherbuliez

#20. I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

A.E. Housman

#21. I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

Nicholas Hoult

#22. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Ada Leverson

#23. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

#24. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Chauncey Depew

#27. Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Laurence J. Peter

#28. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

Jules Breton

#29. This is the picture of the spirit world. It is the world of the optimist. The pessimist has no share in its great glory, because he refuses to accept the possibility which is the nature of life. Thus he denies to himself all he desires, and even the possibility of achieving his desires.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#30. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

William Arthur Ward

#31. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.

Jay Asher

#32. The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

Sylvester Stallone