Gavin Esler Quotes

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I am a congenital optimist.

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

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'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

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.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

I'm a real optimist.

I am a hopeless optimist.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

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

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.

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

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

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

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

I'm a generally optimistic person.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I'm an optimist by nature.