— Duke Ellington
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.
— Elbert Hubbard
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen.
— James Russell Lowell
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
— James Branch Cabell
This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.
— R. A. Campbell
An Englishman who was wrecked on a strange shore and wandering along the coast came to a gallows with a victim hanging on it, and fell down to his knees and thanked God that he at last beheld a sign of civilization.
— James Garfield
The man who laughs has not yet heard the news.
— Bertolt Brecht
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
— Sean O’Faolain
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
— Mark Twain
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
— Lily Tomlin
I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
— Paul Harvey
One must have the courage of one’s pessimism.
— Ian McEwan
“Sayings
Pessimism is the art of finding bad news in a fortune cookie.
An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Save your good times till later
Always expect the worst, and when it comes, make the best of it.
To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
— French proverb
Pessimism is the triumph of worry over matter.
A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities.
he man who says it cannot be done should not interpret the man doing it.
— Chinese proverb
