Pessimist famous quotes

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
-- Amy Waldman

#Fruit #Pessimist #Brown

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

#Disappointment #Pessimist #Optimist

People don't like to follow pessimists.
-- Bob Iger

#People #Pessimist

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

#Hands #Waiting #Pessimist

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
-- Christopher Nolan

#Lucky #Pessimist #Persons

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
-- Colin Mochrie

#Pessimist #Projects

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

#Done #Pessimist #Optimist

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.
-- David Harley

#Reality #Entrepreneur #Pessimist

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
-- Edmond Rostand

#Men #Telling The Truth #Pessimist

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Humility #Men #Pessimist

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
-- Elias Canetti

#Fear #Boring #Pessimist

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Pessimism #Prophet #Pessimist

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
-- Eric Sevareid

#Tomorrow #Pessimist #Optimist

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.
-- Eyedea

#Pessimist #Optimist

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

#Mean #Mind #Pessimist

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Motivational #Pessimist #Optimist

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Positive #Being Positive #Pessimist

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
-- Idries Shah

#Information #Sometimes #Pessimist

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
-- Jack Welch

#Morning #Pessimist #Accomplished

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
-- James Jones

#Would Be #Virtue #Pessimist

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.
-- James Lovelock

#Thinking #Awful #Pessimist

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Attitude #Pessimist #Optimist

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

#People #Realist #Pessimist

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
-- Julian Tuwim

#Doe #Pessimist #Optimist

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Needs #Sometimes #Pessimist

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Jesus #Christ #Pessimist

I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
-- Lewis Mumford

#Optimism #Possibility #Pessimist

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Boat #Pessimist #Jackets

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
-- Mark Twain

#Optimism #Sometimes #Pessimist

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.
-- Martin Seligman

#Weather #Tragedy #Pessimist

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
-- Max Lerner

#Possibility #Pessimist #Optimist

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
-- Maynard James Keenan

#Responsibility #Pessimist #Sense Of Responsibility

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.
-- Mira Grant

#Wake Up #Sometimes #Pessimist

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu

#Pessimist #Optimist #Doughnut

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
-- Norman Cousins

#Enough #Pessimist

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
-- Nouriel Roubini

#Way #Pessimist #Bleak

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
-- Oscar Wilde

#Positive #Differences #Pessimist

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
-- Paul Harvey

#Encouragement #Pessimist #Monument

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
-- Peter Benchley

#Suicidal #Hopeful #Pessimist

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
-- Peter Greenaway

#Gay #Pessimist #Used

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.
-- Ralph Waldo Trine

#Views #Perspective #Pessimist

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
-- Rex Stout

#Pleasant Surprises #Pessimist #Optimist

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.
-- Robin Sharma

#Pessimist #No Hope #Optimist

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
-- Shimon Peres

#Positive Thinking #Different #Pessimist

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
-- Spike Lee

#Thinking #Film #Pessimist

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.
-- Steven Galloway

#Differences #Pessimist #Optimist

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.
-- Thomas Buckner

#Optimism #Half #Pessimist

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
-- Thomas Friedman

#Change #Optimistic #Pessimist

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

#Optimism #Imagine #Pessimist

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
-- Voltaire

#Candide #Life Is #Pessimist

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
-- Will Harvey

#Today #Tomorrow #Pessimist

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
-- William Golding

#Intellectual #Pessimist #Conviction

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
-- Rondal Partridge

#Sarcastic #Photographer #Pessimist

I've never met a successful pessimist.
-- William O'Neil

#Successful #Pessimist #Mets

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
-- Antonio Gala

#Pessimist #Optimist #Wells

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
-- Francois Guizot

#Investing #World #Pessimist

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
-- Grumpy Cat

#Pessimist

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
-- Jan Smuts

#Looks #Pessimist #Prehistory

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

#Lines #Pessimist #Optimist