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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows. -- William Wordsworth
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. -- Elbert Hubbard
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. -- Oscar Wilde
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. -- Doris Lessing
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -- George Will
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
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground. -- Price Pritchett
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. -- William James
Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will. -- Antonio Gramsci
In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. -- Esther Hicks
Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional. -- Alan Cohen
I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. -- Wole Soyinka
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism ... -- Adrienne Rich
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. -- Margaret Atwood
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency. -- David Myers
Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance. -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. -- Erich Fromm
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. -- Arnold Bennett
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. -- David Landes
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. -- Norman Cousins
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. -- Orison Swett Marden
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. -- John Templeton
No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. -- Robert Mueller
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. -- Jonathan Kellerman
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism. -- Jim Leach
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? -- Francis Parker Yockey
Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism. -- Wes Fesler
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. -- Patricia Ireland
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. -- David Rakoff
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. -- William Arthur Ward
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. -- Orison Swett Marden
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. -- Ron Fournier
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. -- Nhat Hanh
Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better. -- Peter Thiel
It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work. -- Elon Musk
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome -- Samuel Butler
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government. -- Elif Safak
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. -- Bruce Springsteen
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. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions. -- Price Pritchett

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