Lori Greiner Quotes

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.

Keep things in perspective. It's never quite as good as it seems, it's never quite as bad as it seems.

I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.