Wayne Dyer Quotes

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

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

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

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

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

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

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.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Only nothing is impossible.

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.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?