Zig Ziglar Quotes

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

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

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

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

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

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

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

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

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.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

I don't like being pessimistic. I don't like living my life with a nihilistic mindset.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

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

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.