Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

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

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

I'm such a fan of the glass being half full.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

I am an optimist.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.