Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

I am not a cynic.

I am an optimist.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

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

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

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

I don't believe in pessimism.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

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

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

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

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I'm not cynical.

I'm always optimistic.

I believe in being positive.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Well, I'm an optimist.