Quotes About Attitude

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Pessimism is my default setting.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

I have about an equal amount of optimism and pessimism.

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.