Quotes on Optimists And Pessimists

We live in the best of all possible worlds

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.