Pessimist Quotes

• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Men, Names

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

  Lisa Kleypas

  Boat, Jackets

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Christmas with Holly”, p.101, Macmillan

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Complaining

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Attitude, Optimistic

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

  George Will

  Inspirational, Funny, Nice

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

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• 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

  Optimistic, Optimism, Labels

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

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Positive, Success, Optimistic

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

  Paul Harvey

  Encouragement, Optimism, Monument

  "Breatharians" by Callan Wink, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2012.

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• After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

  Robert Breault

  Positivity, Years, Optimism

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• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

  Max Lerner

  Possibility, Optimist

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• An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

  Helen Rowland

  Country, Wife, Optimism

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• A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Relief, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.155, 谷月社

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• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  Walter Winchell

  Crazy, Air, Mad

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• Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

  Paul Harvey

  Future, Today, Tomorrow

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• I am not a pessimist.
  Just a well informed optimist.

  Antonio Gala

  Optimist, Wells

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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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• 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

  Attitude, Optimistic, Dark

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

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimistic

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

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• Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, Race, People

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Optimistic

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Attitude, Two

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• 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

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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