Daniel Hannan Quotes

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.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

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'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

It's easy to be negative.

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

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

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

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.