Nora Roberts Quotes

I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

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 not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist.

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.

I am an optimist.

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

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'

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

I don't believe in pessimism.

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

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?