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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
William Arthur Ward
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
“Cynics are well-informed optimists”
Jeff Frieden
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
Walt Disney
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.”
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
“The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar”
Ernst Schroder
