Optimists And Pessimists Quotes - Page 2

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Opportunity, Optimism, Growth

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

  Chauncey Depew

  Funny, Women, Silly

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

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

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Attitude, Optimistic

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Positive, Attitude

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Tradition, Pessimist

  Lewis Mumford (1940). “Faith for living”

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

  Christopher Nolan

  Lucky, Pessimist, Persons

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

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  1965 Quoted in CBS News tribute,14 Jan.

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

  Colin Mochrie

  Planning, Management, Pessimist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  School, Years, Class

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

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Attitude, Optimistic

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Death, Positive Thinking

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