Pessimism Quotes

Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. View quote
Antonio Gramsci
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. View quote
Norman Cousins
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. View quote
Golda Meir
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery. View quote
John Ralston Saul
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. View quote
Patricia Ireland
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Cease negative mental chattering. - If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed. (Bruce Lee)
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a. m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing. View quote
Morrissey
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. View quote
Joan Robinson
Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. View quote
Jean Rostand
[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks. View quote
Georg Brandes
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy. View quote
Helen Keller
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. View quote
Helen Keller
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. View quote
Wole Soyinka
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer. (Warren Buffett)
The soul refuses limits, and always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. View quote
Erich Fromm
Realism isn't pessimism. And though the anti-reform interests have won an unconscionable number of battles over the last decade, the war is by no means over. View quote
John Ralston Saul
‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. View quote
David Benioff