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• Not to be born is best, but having seen the light, the next best is to go whence one came as soon as may be.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Best

• Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tags in Pessimism

• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Edward Salk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Dreams

• There are two Newman’s laws. The first one is “It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” The second is “Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pessimism, Creed, Credo, Useless

• Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  Alan Cohen

  Topics in Fear, Opportunity, Wisdom

  Tags in Change/Growth, Optimism, Pessimism, Hope

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

  Michel de Saint-Pierre

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Encouragement, Inspirational

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Regret

• Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery, Optimism, Pessimism, Curiosity, School, Enthusiasm

• Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Optimism, Pessimism

• I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Will, Science

• The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

  Heywood Campbell Broun Jr.

  Topics in Dream, Youth

  Tags in Pessimism

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

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Challenge, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Difficulties