The repository contains 20 quotes in the category “Optimism and Pessimism.”
If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
1930 —
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
1921 — 1997
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Steven Wright
1955 —
When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
Steven Wright
1955 —
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe that the best is yet to come.
Sir Peter Ustinov
1921 — 2004
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas Edison
1847 — 1931
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965
Go into situations expecting nothing and you always come out getting something better than you had ever expected.
Pessimist: a person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
It’s better to be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
1879 — 1958
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
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
1835 — 1910
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Joseph Joubert
1754 — 1824
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
1688 — 1744
No one ever says “It’s only a game” when their team is winning.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
