Quotes About Optimism Vs Pessimism

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

James Branch Cabell

#2. You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?

Jim Butcher

#3. Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Charlie Chaplin

#5. Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Ron Fournier

#6. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Pat Conroy

#7. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Joey Comeau

#8. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#9. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. I always got out before the euphoria.

Jennifer Handford

#11. We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there's always another bottom underneath the one we're laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there's always endless opportunity above us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.

Jonathan Kellerman

#13. Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

#14. We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Mark Twain

#16. Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

David Myers

#17. 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

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

Thomas L. Friedman

#19. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

David Landes

#20. We are optimists by instinct, pessimists by thought.

Marty Rubin

#21. Don't ever let desperation take the seat of inspiration in you! Always live inspired no matter what! For though something might be wrong somewhere, something is always right somewhere! If you have life, be alive and smile!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

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

Idries Shah

#24. Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Edith Hamilton

#25. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James

#26. Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

Max Beerbohm

#27. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.

Oscar Wilde

#28. Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

Michael Chabon

#30. Pessimism has its own secret
Share of optimism in it too.

Angela Suba