Quotes about Pessimists

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made. Votes: 3

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors. Votes: 3

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. Votes: 3

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. Votes: 3

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. Votes: 3

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. Votes: 3

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. Votes: 3

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter. Votes: 3

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. Votes: 3

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons. Votes: 3

Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead. Votes: 3

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. Votes: 3

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. Votes: 3

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. Votes: 3

Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed. Votes: 3

Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Votes: 3

Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism. Votes: 3

I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing. Votes: 3

People don't like to follow pessimists. Votes: 1

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Votes: 1

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. Votes: 1

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Votes: 1

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war. Votes: 1

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities. Votes: 1

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. Votes: 1

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. Votes: 1

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. Votes: 1

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic. Votes: 0

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. Votes: 0

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. Votes: 0

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! Votes: 0

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. Votes: 0

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. Votes: 0

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity. Votes: 0

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat. Votes: 0

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. Votes: 0

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right. Votes: 0

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. Votes: 0

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. Votes: 0

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. Votes: 0

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. Votes: 0

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done. Votes: 0

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy. Votes: 0

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. Votes: 0

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God. Votes: 0

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses. Votes: 0

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. Votes: 0

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists. Votes: 0