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• Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

  James A. Baldwin

  Thinking, Race, People

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• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forgiveness, Wise, Ignorance

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, Assassins, Hopelessness

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Philosophy, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)”, p.10, Kshetra Books

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• Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Heart, Men, Optimism

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

  John Buchan

  Soul, Isms

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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• Pessimism is easy. We all can do it. We don't need to read books on how to be pessimists. We don't need guidance on how to think negatively. But we do need guidance on how to think positively. People that write books on how to do that are multimillionaires.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

  Lois Wyse

  Fear, Born, Uncertainty

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• Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Optimism, Hopeful, Invincible

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• Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

  Upton Sinclair

  Mean, Voice, Disease

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• Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Powerful, Luxury

  Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

  Esther Hicks

  Optimistic, Positivity, Optimism

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• Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Optimism, Denial, Life Experience

  Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Stubbornness, Results

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.

  Georg Brandes

  Believe, Optimism, Greek

  "An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche". Essay by Georg Brandes (1889), as translated in "Friedrich Nietzsche" by A.G. Chater (p. 21), 1914.

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• 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

  Business, Famous Inspirational, Rain

  "7 Habits Of Famous People Who Have No Intention Of Slowing Down" by Yagana Shah, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2016.

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• No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Stars, Optimistic

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Attitude

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

  Agnes Repplier

  Views, Doe, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sadness, Mean, Doe

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  Norman Cousins

  Positive, Optimistic, Optimism

  "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, 1981.

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• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

  Leonard Cohen

  Rain, Optimistic, Reality

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• I don't believe in pessimism.

  Clint Eastwood

  Positive, Believe, Don't Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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