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Welcome to these Pessimism Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Related topics: Positive Optimism
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Footprints in the sand...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Pay attention.
Don't let resentments or pessimism answer for you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never quit.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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