Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Inspirational moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Pessimism leads to weakness optimism to power.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

In securing the future of the planet we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.

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.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit which is cynicism and pessimism and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Pessimism only describes an attitude and not facts and hence is entirely subjective.