Top 100 Pessimist Optimist Quotes
#1. The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way.
Paulo Coelho
#2. 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
#3. An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
#4. I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
Frances Moore Lappe
#5. 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
#7. Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
Franklin P. Adams
#8. 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
#9. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit.
Debasish Mridha
#11. I may be the optimist and you may be the Pessimist
but you can never put a puzzle together
with the two of the same pieces.
Austin V. Songer
#12. The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
Sydney J. Harris
#13. A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
#14. I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.
Craig Venter
#15. Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else.
William Ury
#16. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston S. Churchill
#17. 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
#18. Reciprocal illusions: the pessimist's fear and the optimist's hope.
Marty Rubin
#19. Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.
Anna Funder
#20. I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.
Amanda Craig
#21. 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
#22. A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
Eyedea
#23. Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.
Nicholas Proffitt
#24. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
#25. In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Daniel Reardon
#26. Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.
Charles Martin
#27. A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.
Winston Churchill
#28. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
#29. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.
Thomas Cathcart
#30. I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
#31. You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
Rondal Partridge
#32. Oh, all my friends,
Young or old, mad or sad,
Loving or kind, optimist or pessimist,
Enjoy the drama of life,
enjoy the beauty of life,
enjoy every moment of it,
Because this is it,
We are all in our last journey
We call life.
Debasish Mridha
#33. I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
David Souter
#34. 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
#35. To be pessimist is to amputate one's own legs and arms! Only an optimist man has the ability to move!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. 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
#37. A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
Martin Seligman
#40. You can discern the pessimist from the optimist by just looking at how people react to snow.
Iveta Cherneva
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
#44. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
#46. I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
Martin Rees
#47. There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?
Joe Posnanski
#48. Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Oscar Wilde
#49. An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
Mark Twain
#53. 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
#54. Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
David Harley
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
William Golding
#59. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
#61. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Ada Leverson
#66. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#67. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. 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
#69. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
#70. Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
Laurence J. Peter
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
William Arthur Ward
#74. Unsure of what I was. An optimist? A pessimist?
Neither. A fool.
Jay Asher
#75. 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
#76. I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
Lesslie Newbigin
#77. To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
William Arthur Ward
#78. The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Christian D. Larson
#79. I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
Lewis Mumford
#80. Don't ever become a pessimist ... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.
Munia Khan
#82. The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...
James Minter
#83. 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
#84. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Matthieu Ricard
#85. The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.
G.K. Chesterton
#86. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Laurence J. Peter
#87. It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
Mark Twain
#88. 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
#89. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
J. Oswald Sanders
#90. The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#91. 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
#92. You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. 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
#94. On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.
Helen Caldicott
#95. An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.
Milan Kundera
#96. [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
Rex Stout
#97. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark Twain
#98. An optimist sees the miracles and beauty of life and a pessimist sees the sufferings and wonders, where is the life?
Debasish Mridha
#99. I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley
#100. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
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