Elbert Hubbard Quotes

For a long time I was kind of a glass-half-empty type of person.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

It's easy to be negative.

Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

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

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?