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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Desires, Forge, Want, Lies

• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Edward Salk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Dreams

• Not to be born is best, but having seen the light, the next best is to go whence one came as soon as may be.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Best

• The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

  Heywood Campbell Broun Jr.

  Topics in Dream, Youth

  Tags in Pessimism

• Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

  William James

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  Oscar Wilde

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Perception

• I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  Patricia Ireland

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Cynicism

• An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• 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.

  Victor Cherbuliez

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  Norman Cousins

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• Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tags in Pessimism

• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

  Michel de Saint-Pierre

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism