Pessimism Quotes
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.
You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?
This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.