Pessimism Quotes - Page 16

• People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Views, People, Negativity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.44, Penguin

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• 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.

  William Arthur Ward

  Encouragement, Kindness, Criticism

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• A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.

  William Wordsworth

  Confidence, Men, Yesterday

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.828, Delphi Classics

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• The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Said, Protest

  Miguel De Unamuno (2005). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Optimistic, Ideas, Optimism

  1913 The Tragic Sense of Life.

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• Now, what is the left's worldview in general? What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it's one of pessimism and darkness, sadness. They're never happy, are they? They're always angry about something. No matter what they get, they're always angry.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Philosophy, Sadness

  "Robin Williams and the Pop Culture Media". www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2014.

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• This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eye, Past, Men

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this. We've got slavery and Jim Crow. We've got workers with no rights up until `35. We're going to bounce back. We are resilient, resisting people. So, it's not pessimism, but it is blues-like. It's not optimistic. We're just prisoners of hope, that's all.

  Cornel West

  Optimistic, Rights, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Tomorrow, Curtains

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• Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

  Steve Toltz

  Laughing, Optimism, Extremely Funny

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