Bob Feller Quotes

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

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.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

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

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.