Best optimism & pessimistic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that.”

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Book:Hero

Source: Hero

“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.”

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Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

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Book:Letters from prison

Source: Letters from prison

“I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.”

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Author:Jon Anderson

“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.”

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Author:David Rakoff

“Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.”

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Author:William James

“I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.”

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Author:Louise Erdrich

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

“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.”

“When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.”

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Book:Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

Source: Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”

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Author:Carlos Fuentes

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

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Book:Churchill By Himself

Source: Churchill By Himself

“Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“We live in the best of all possible worlds”

Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”

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Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner.”

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Author:Alberto Villoldo

“Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.”

Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?”

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Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

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Author:Claire

“The only thing I’m optimistic about is the future of pessimism.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Stoicism is a mild form of pessimism … sprinkled with optimism.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It’s okay to feel down or think pessimistically sometimes, but choosing to respond with optimism, resilience, and gratitude will benefit you far more in the long run.”

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Book:small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era

Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era

“The unwise hope for the best … and prepare for only the best.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is the longest practical joke ever.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most pessimists are blinded by darkness.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“At any given moment, it is a beautiful day in many parts of the world.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is how you look at it.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“A negative outlook is dangerous. When you say, “It can’t get any worse!” You're essentially challenging the universe to do exactly that.”

“We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life presents innumerable possibilities for love, friendship, compassion, and self-fulfillment, but we must be willing to give in order to receive. Persistence, sacrifice, a quest for knowledge, along with acquaintance with our true self is essential in order to achieve our dreams. Panic, fear, worry, doubt, anger, and a negative attitude are the biggest impediments to self-realization. The most important battle we undertake in life is not with other people; rather it takes place in the human mind.”

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

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