Pessimist Quotes

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

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

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

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

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

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

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.