An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
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.
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.
Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the. . . cosmos. . . gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.