Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
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.'
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
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.
I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.