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Optimists And Pessimists Quotes

George Bernard Shaw quote: "Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The..."
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw
But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. Tony Blair
Tom Bodett quote: "The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An..."
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. Tom Bodett
Philip Pullman quote: "Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and..."
Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world. Philip Pullman
Albert Einstein quote: "I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. Albert Einstein
William Golding quote: "I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a..."
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. William Golding
Paulo Coelho quote: "The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each..."
The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way. Paulo Coelho
Jack Nicholson quote: "In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and..."
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. Jack Nicholson
Thomas Friedman quote: "Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong..."
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. Thomas Friedman
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance... Paul Hawken
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic. Albert Schweitzer
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
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
but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist. Charles Williams
Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Laurell K. Hamilton

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