An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
- Topic: Optimism, Pessimism
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Rene Descartes
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
› Rene Descartes
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
› Rene Descartes
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
› Rene Descartes
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Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
› Gordon B. Hinckley
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
› Colin Powell
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
› William Arthur Ward
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
› Bob Marley
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
› Kahlil Gibran
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
› Shakti Gawain
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
› Clint Eastwood
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
› Denis Waitley
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
› Winston Churchill
Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
› Michael Kitson
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
› Epictetus
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
› George Bernard Shaw
