Geist / Spirit Optimismus / Optimism Pessimismus / Pessimism Wille / Will
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.
Pride will spit in pride's face.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.