Calvin Coolidge Quotes

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

I'm not Pollyanna.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

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 think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

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

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it.

I have no cynicism at all.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

There are definitely a lot of doubters out there.

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

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.