Top 1115 Optimism And Pessimism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

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

Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

The Democrats have always owned the pessimism. It's just the way it's worked out.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Pessimism is a waste of time.

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response.

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

I don't believe in pessimism.

Pessimism is my default setting.

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

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

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!