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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity
Pessimist
Every
Difficulty
Sees
Optimist
Every Opportunity
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity
Pessimist
Every
Difficulty
Sees
Optimist
Every Opportunity
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.
Harvey Mackay
Positive
Day
You
Every Day
Wake Up
Matter
Perspective
Negative
Pessimist
Every
Wake
Up
Optimist
Either
Choices
Choose
Two
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S Truman
Opportunities
Pessimist
Difficulties
Makes
His
Optimist
Who
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
Wise
Light
Pessimist
Everywhere
Only
Sees
Colorblind
Wise Person
Red
Truly
Optimist
Green
Person
Green Light
While
Who
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Pessimist
Stars
Secret
Spirit
Uncharted
Opened
New
Sailed
Discovered
Human
Doorway
The Secret Of
Land
Human Spirit
Ever
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist
Evils
Both
He
Choice
Chooses
Who
Two
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes
Light
Pessimist
Out
Run
Must
See
None
Always
Optimist
Blow
May
Where
Why
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
Sad
Young
Pessimist
Sight
Sadder
Than
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.
James Gunn
Struggle
Soul
People
World
Goodness
Own
Sense
Pessimist
Believe
Other
Guess
My Own
Like
Most
Makes
Am
Demons
Brain
Optimist
Any
Many
Things
Innate
Damaged
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain
Man
Too Much
Before
Pessimist
Too
He
Knows
Optimist
After
Little
Much
Who
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.
Robert A. Heinlein
Events
Become
Pessimist
Correct
Neither
More
Optimist
Than
Stop
Fun
Ever
March
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan
Old
Year
Pessimist
See
Stays
New
Until
Make
Sure
Leaves
Up
Optimist
New Year
Midnight
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
Pessimist
Laugh
Laughs
Between
Optimist
Forget
Forgets
Difference
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
You
Pessimist
Nice
Pleasantly
Constantly
About
Part
Proven
Surprised
Being
Either
Right
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.
Leonard Cohen
Myself
Rain
Waiting
Skin
Pessimist
Think
Consider
Someone
Feel
Who
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
Change
World
Money
Compassion
Power
Pessimist
Think
Society
Say
Worships
Generosity
Extinct
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov
Sad
Day
Fool
Every Day
World
Pessimist
Every
Out
Must
Finds
Anew
Only
Know
How
Am
Optimist
Order
After
Place
Militant
Who
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
Intelligence
Will
Pessimist
Because
Optimist
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
Man
Women
Pessimist
Bad
All Women
Hopes
Women Are
Optimist
Who
Thinks
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
Pessimist
Has-Been
Been
Optimist
Person
Acquainted
Who
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Jacques Barzun
History
Pessimist
Think
Student
Almost
Cheerful
Always
Inevitably
Been
Any
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
John Grant
Saying
Me
People
World
Somebody
Pessimist
Live
Think
Way
Must
Sees
Fact
Glass
Like
Always
Up
Optimist
Eternal
Who
Painted
Showing
Showing Up
Shows
Keep
I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
Martin Rees
Technology
Science
People
World
Political
Will
Pessimist
Believe
Living
Solutions
About
Allow
Support
Concerned
Acceptable
Am
Provide
Optimist
Whether
Standard
Billion
Technological
Applied
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey
Today
Better
Tomorrow
Will
Pessimist
Every
Has-Been
Always
Been
Than
Buried
Who
Lived
Ever
Grave
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Zig Ziglar
Time
You
Word
Invention
Nothing
Pessimist
Believe
Our
Says
Complimentary
About
Vocabulary
Webster
Noah
Know
Terms
Optimist
Dictionary
Modern
Which
Interest
Might
Should
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