Blind Spots – Pessimism – Positive Inspirations

Some of the world’s most gifted people have left us simple yet powerful statements on pessimism. These inspirations can be applied to our current economic and personal situations as we manage Covid19!

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Bernard De Voto

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Always examine the dice.

Groucho Marx

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost