I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.