Sunday, 4 August 2013

Pessimist - Quotes

Cease to anticipate misfortune – there are still many chances of escape. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed. - Bruce Lee

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses – or with a new set of ideological filters. - George Weigel

Pessimism ... is, in brief, playing the sure game ... It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. - Thomas Hardy

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. - Howard Zinn

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow. - Robert H. Schuller

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. - Orison Swett Marden

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism. - Miguel de Unamuno

When ... the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed! - Samuel Ullman

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