The optimist is a person who wakes up in the morning and shouts: "Good Morning, God!" The pessimist is a person who wakes up in the morning and groans: "Good God! It's morning!"
(this is my favourite quote on optimists and pessimists- I don't know who said it)
Here are some more:
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
-Mark Twain
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
-Kahlil Gibran
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
-Rene Descartes
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
-Albert Schweitzer
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
-Anonymous
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be
-Anonymous
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-William Arthur Ward
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 Heinlein
Any more quotes on Pessimists and Optimists????
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all... he's walking on them.
~Leonard Louis Levinson~
A realist thinks this way:-
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
~Abraham Lincoln~
Hey Jac, cool ones, esp the second one! Did AL really say that? LOL
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
I enjoyed the quotes - you had some great ones. Not sure who said this, but...
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."
Wow Pam! that's cool!
vidyakutty: you seem to be an expert on this!!!!
Look for the brighter side of everything if you can. Why waste time worrying about something that may never happen when we can just as easily look forward to seeing a better life for ourself and others. Smiles brings more happiness and makes life much better, so why waste time crying over something we have no control over. As they say, hamndle what we can and leave the rest to God or someone who has the power to change things.
I guess Dot is one hundred percent right. I had a friend in college who never worried about her exam results. She used to say: If I'm gonna get bad marks, I have all the time in the world to worry about it after the results are out. And if the results are good, my worrying in advance would be a sheer waste!
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