Quotes on Pessimist

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

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

Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.

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!

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

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

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.