Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

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

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

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

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

I just look at the high and bright side of things.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

I'm an optimist by nature.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

I'm an eternal optimist.

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.