Nicholas Hoult Quotes

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

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

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

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

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

I'm always being realistic.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

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

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

I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

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.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.