Optimists And Pessimists Quotes:

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

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Change, Optimistic, Pessimist, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Motivational, Pessimist, Optimist, Contribution To Society, Parachutes

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sarcastic, Two Worlds, Optimism And Pessimism

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

- George Will

source: George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Nice, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Recovery

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Change, Attitude, Positive Thinking, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual, Oblivious, Optimism And Pessimism

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Graduation, Shoot For The Moon, Individual Differences

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: New Year, Fun, New Beginnings, Another Year, Spiritual New Year

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Attitude, Two, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Success, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Optimistic, Men, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude, Mischance, Optimism And Pessimism

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Glasses, Optimism, Needs, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

- Paul Harvey

topic: Encouragement, Pessimist, Monument, Optimists And Pessimists

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

- Edmond Rostand

topic: Men, Telling The Truth, Pessimist, Optimists And Pessimists

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

- Antonio Gramsci

source: Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

topic: Life Changing, Optimistic, Science, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Relationship, Thinking, Optimism, Optimism And Hope, Optimism And Pessimism

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

- James Branch Cabell

source: The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

topic: Labels, World, Littles, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

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

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Humility, Men, Pessimist, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

- Walter Winchell

topic: Crazy, Air, Mad, Optimists And Pessimists

We live in the best of all possible worlds

- Gottfried Leibniz

topic: Philosophical, World, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life, Optimistic Life

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

- Leonard Louis Levinson

topic: Attitude, Dark, Clouds, Dark Side, Optimism And Pessimism

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

- Don Marquis

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Optimists And Pessimists

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Positive, Attitude, Importunate, Inspirational Attitude

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

- William DeWitt Hyde

topic: Opportunity, Optimism, Growth, Optimism In Life, Optimists And Pessimists

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

- Chauncey Depew

source: "FPA Book of Quotations : A New Collection of Famous Sayings". Book by Franklin Pierce Adams, 1952.

topic: Men, Naughty, Thinking, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimists And Pessimists

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

- Rene Descartes

topic: Running, Attitude, Optimistic, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Positive, Differences, Pessimist, Donuts, Optimism And Pessimism

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

- Lewis Mumford

source: Lewis Mumford (1940). “Faith for living”

topic: Past, Tradition, Pessimist, Optimists And Pessimists, Traditional

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

- Christopher Nolan

source: "Biography: Christopher Nolan". www.thecinemaholic.com. February 10, 2018.

topic: Lucky, Pessimist, Persons, Optimists And Pessimists, Lucky Person

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Attitude, Optimistic Person, Optimists And Pessimists

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

- Colin Mochrie

topic: Pessimist, Projects, Optimists And Pessimists

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: School, Class, Years, Optimists And Pessimists

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Positive, Attitude, Optimistic, Mission And Vision, Optimism In Life

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

- Shimon Peres

topic: Positive Thinking, Different, Pessimist, Optimists And Pessimists, Positive People