Pessimism Quotes

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

Rain, Ahead, Forge

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James

Power, Optimism, Weakness

Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Intellect, Superior, Agree

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Everyone, Criticism, Defeat

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

Attitude, Facts, Subjective

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

Time, Wait, Optimism

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

Himself, Luxury, Allow

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
Wole Soyinka

Future, Depression, Same

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.
Bruce Springsteen

Fire, Between, Against

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

Writing, Optimism, Story

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

America, Said, Optimism

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

Point, Sincerity, Extends

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
Antonio Gramsci

Optimism, Spirit

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

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

Optimism, Used, Agreeable

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

Time, Long, Words

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron Lanier

Nature, Future, Human

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

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
George Will

American, Cheese, Apple

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.
David Limbaugh

America, Poor, Between

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Emilio Estevez

Cool, Hard, Trying

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

Energy, Optimism, Lead

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
Bjorn Lomborg

Life, Future, Past

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Bob Brown

Happiness, Future, Young

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

Stupidity, Between, Optimism

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
George J. Mitchell

Middle, Exists, East

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

Men, Wisdom, Give

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

Optimism, Rule, Greater

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

Point, Sincerity, Goes

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