“Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”
Bill Clinton
“Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.”
Larry Kersten
“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
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain
“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”
Janeane Garofalo
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James
