(103 quotes found)
“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”
Oscar Wilde
“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.”
W. R. Inge
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
James Branch Cabell
“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”
Carl Rogers
“I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.”
Max Lerner
“In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip”
Daniel L. Reardon
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
“I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”
Paul Harvey
“I'd rather live as an optimist with some doubt than a pessimist without hope.”
Enmanuel Sella Yermenos
