Quotes and Sayings About Pessimist
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[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
-- Amy Waldman -
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?
-- Barbara Mertz -
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 -
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
-- Christopher Nolan -
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
-- Colin Mochrie -
I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
-- Craig Venter -
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
-- David Harley -
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
-- Edmond Rostand -
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
-- Elias Canetti -
To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
-- Elsa Triolet -
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
-- Eric Sevareid -
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 Lappé -
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
-- Harvey Mackay -
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
-- Idries Shah -
Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
-- Jack Welch -
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
-- James Jones -
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
-- James Lovelock -
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
-- Joan Baez -
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
-- Julian Tuwim -
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
-- Lesslie Newbigin -
I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
-- Lewis Mumford -
I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
-- Mark Twain -
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
-- Martin Seligman
