Optimism And Pessimism Quotes by William Arthur Ward, Leonard Louis Levinson, Kin Hubbard, Elbert Hubbard, Robert Breault, Oscar Wilde and many others.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
A pessimist sees only 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.
Being an optimist after you’ve got everything you want doesn’t count.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s the bluebird of happiness.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism – some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
When its dark enough you can see the stars.
Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
