Quotes About Optimists And Pessimists

#1. Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

Shimon Peres

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

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey MacKay

#4. Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Jonathan Harnisch

#5. 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

#6. I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.

Craig Venter

#7. Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

Sydney J. Harris

#8. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.

Naima Simone

#9. The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Benjamin Graham

#10. 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

#11. Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

Denis Waitley

#12. Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Ouida

#13. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#14. Optimists envision the best that could happen.
Pessimists envision the worst that could happen.
Pragmatists envision the likely to happen.
The pessimist finds many reasons to quit.
The optimist finds many reasons to keep going.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. 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.

#16. 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

#17. Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

#18. Pessimists thrive while optimists starve.

Zachariah Dracoulis

#19. Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#20. The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

#21. I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Tamar Myers

#22. I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#23. Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Ted Koppel

#24. The world belongs to optimists. Pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

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

Cathy Burnham Martin

#26. In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.

John Vaillant

#27. 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

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

Rex Stout

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

Thomas L. Friedman

#30. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.

Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.

Bogdan Vaida

#31. Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.

Wes Fesler

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

Marty Rubin

#33. 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

#34. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Mason Cooley