Pessimists calculate the odds, optimists believe they can overcome them.
Pessimist Quotes
I am an optimist rather than a pessimist. It is possible that the pessimists may be proven right in the long run, but we optimists have a better time on the trip.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
A pessimist only sees 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.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
Pessimism, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
