Top 1115 Optimism And Pessimism Quotes & Sayings

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

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.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.

Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.