Tom Bodett Quotes

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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

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

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

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

I try to see the positive side of things.

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.

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

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

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

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.

I am an optimist.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

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 always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

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

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

I don't believe in pessimism.

Be positive and laugh at everything.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

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

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.