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May you find great value in these Pessimism quotes and sayings.
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
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
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
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Better late than never.
- Proverb
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Never quit.
- Anonymous
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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