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Optimist Vs. Pessimist

February 27th, 2006 by Laura Moncur in Motivation
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, London, November 9, 1954
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
“Do you know what a pessimist is?” “A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5

For me, I choose optimist. It’s too easy to fall into the depression of pessimism. Fight it with all your might and keep your optimism alive.

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