(113 quotes found)
“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.”
Samuel Ullman
“To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic”
Albert Schweitzer
“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom”
Bernard De Voto
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
G. B. Stern
“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”
Arnold Bennett
“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.”
George Santayana
“That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”
George Foreman
“Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.”
Bill Clinton
“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”
Norman Cousins
“Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.”
Larry Kersten
