An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
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.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.