Pessimist Quotes

Pessimist Quote of the day

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

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

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.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

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.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

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

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.