A pessimist is never disappointed. ...
by Jack Cleary

A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary

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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

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

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie