Sayings About Being Pessimistic

#1. There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.

Anonymous

#2. The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

Prince William

#3. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#4. Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being pessimistic, and although I'd like to believe that a boom or we or us exists, I'm not sure I do anymore. Maybe I've been holding out for something that's unrealistic.

Karyn Bosnak

#5. No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Price Pritchett

#6. If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

David Suzuki

#7. No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

Cathie Linz

#8. There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

David Rakoff

#9. I get my ideas from listening from within.

Thomas A. Edison

#10. An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.

Alberto Villoldo

#11. Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#14. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Charles Stross

#15. I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.

Kim Jee-woon

#16. You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Bill Budge

#17. I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping.

Julia Roberts

#18. There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

William McFee

#19. I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Jose Saramago

#20. Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Don Herold

#21. Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people.

Martin Seligman

#22. She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Johann Kaspar Lavater