(110 quotes found)
“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
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
Bill Vaughn
“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
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“A pessimist only sees 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 L. Levinson
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran
“A pessimist is never disappointed.”
Jack Cleary
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”
William Arthur Ward
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