Vaclav Havel Quotes

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

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I'm always optimistic.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I have no cynicism at all.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

I am an optimist.

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

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

I'm a natural optimist.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

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

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

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 not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

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