Barbara Mertz Quotes

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

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

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

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.

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

I'm an optimist - very glass half-full.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

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

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I'm an eternal optimist.

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

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

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

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

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?

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.