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\nHere\u2019s a selection of my favorite quotes on optimism and pessimism.
\n“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
\n“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” – Harry S. Truman
\n\u201cWe can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.\u201d \u2015 Abraham Lincoln
\n\u201cThe optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.\u201d \u2015 Oscar Wilde
\n\u201cSome people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.\u201d \u2015 George Carlin
\n“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.” – Mark Twain
\n“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabell
\n“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Depew
\n“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane; the pessimist, the parachute.” \u2014 George Bernard Shaw
\n“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.” – Anonymous
\n“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight … the truly wise person is colorblind.” – Albert Schweitzer
\n“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
\n“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.” – Leonard L Levinson
\n“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will
\n“Go into situations expecting nothing and you always come out getting something better than you had ever expected.” – Unknown
\n“It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.” – Lucimar Santos de Lima
\n“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.” – Robert A. Heinlein
\n“Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.” – Robert G. Allen
\n“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.” – H.Keller
\n“I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.” – Paul Harvey
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