A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
- Topic: Optimism, Pessimism
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Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
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.
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.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
