Quotes and Sayings about Pessimism
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
- Bob Brown
(Related: Happiness, People, Pessimism, Future, World)
"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Time, Optimism, Pessimism, Deals, Facts, Waste)
"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
- Clint Eastwood
(Related: Pessimism, Rain, Want, Will)
"Pessimism never won any battle."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Pessimism, Battle)
"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Pessimism, Intellect)
"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
- Antonio Gramsci
(Related: Optimism, Pessimism, Spirit, Will)
"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
(Related: Pessimism, Criticism, Defeat, Nations)
"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Enthusiasm, Optimism, Pessimism, Cynicism, Energy)
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
- William James
(Related: Power, Optimism, Pessimism, Weakness)
"There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism."
- Jim Leach
(Related: Optimism, Pessimism)
"One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."
- Ian Mcewan
(Related: Courage, Pessimism)
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Pessimism, Luxury)
"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Pessimism, Ireland, Now)
"My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists."
- Edmond Rostand
(Related: Pessimism, Sincerity)
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Pessimism, Sincerity)
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
- Wole Soyinka
(Related: Pessimism, Depression, Future, Talk)
"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom."
- Bernard De Voto
(Related: Men, Wisdom, Pessimism, Name, Nerves)
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
- George Will
(Related: Pessimism, American)
"Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective."
- Francis Parker Yockey
(Related: Attitude, Pessimism, Facts)
"If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?"
- Francis Parker Yockey
(Related: Optimism, Pessimism, Cowardice, Despair, Stupidity)