Glass Half Quotes

#1. I'm very much a glass-half-full person.

Brian O'Driscoll

#2. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.

Janet Evanovich

#3. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

Emily Giffin

#4. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.

William B. Irvine

#5. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.

Morris Chestnut

#6. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

Erin McCarthy

#8. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. [My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

Sarah Winman

#10. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

#11. My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

Kliff Kingsbury

#12. Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

Ville Valo

#13. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

#14. If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven't been holding the right glass

Richard Branson

#15. 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.

George Carlin

#16. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.

Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.

Bogdan Vaida

#17. Some people look at a glass and see it as half-full. Others look at a glass and call it a dragon.

Jon Stewart

#18. You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Rachel Caine

#19. But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

Maynard James Keenan

#20. My kids and I figured out that there's a third kind of person, and I don't know what you call them, but it's somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it's half full with water and half full with nothing, so that's the third kind of person. I don't know what it is.

Louis C.K.

#21. I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

Nancy Meyers

#22. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.

D.L. Snell

#23. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.

Judy Nichols

#24. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

Eleanor Smeal

#25. Pardon me for finding the glass half full.

Rupert Giles

#26. Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

Until you stop to listen

That terrible background noise,

you have no idea how bad I want to hold you

But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.

Brittany Williams

#27. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.

Gail Davis

#28. He isn't bashful, but an asshole who'd sooner smash his glass because it was half full.

Gordon P. Bois

#29. My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

Abraham Verghese

#30. I see the glass half full ... but of poison.

Woody Allen

#31. I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What's the difference? Eventually it'll end up empty and in the trash.

Cyndi Goodgame

#32. Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...

Lauren Aquilina

#33. I've been told I'm a glass half-empty sort of person.

Maria Malonzo

#34. 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.

George Carlin

#35. Locke moaned.
'Quit sobbing, you damn baby,' Jean hissed as he began to lope back along the dock. 'You must have at least a half beer glass of blood left somewhere in there.'
But Locke was now well and truly unconscious ...

Scott Lynch

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

George W. Bush

#37. Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.

T.F. Hodge

#38. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

Peter Drucker

#39. I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.

Peter McWilliams

#40. I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

Darynda Jones

#41. Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it's half empty and sink,
I feel you are in the midst of,
reaching out for another awesome drink!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#42. I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Janeane Garofalo

#43. I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

Christian Slater

#44. Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

#45. I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty ... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

Maya Angelou

#46. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

Joey Comeau

#47. He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#48. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

Gwyneth Lewis

#49. Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

James Alan Gardner

#50. Good and safe" are all I have been during my romantic career, keeping myself virtuous outside of relationships never putting out before I had a commitment and a half dozen dates under my belt.

Valentine Glass

#51. There are the dirtstreaked glass panes of the bay windows, there are the heavy, moth-eaten drapes, and there, half hidden by the curtains, pointed face peeking out with that familiar worried look, is Elsie.

Anonymous

#52. I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

John Niven

#53. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Nora Roberts

#54. Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Terry Pratchett

#55. Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Mark Cuban

#56. I have lived temperately ... I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

#57. In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Ira Glass

#58. This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.

Steven Pinker

#59. At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Catherine Tate

#60. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.

Chris Byrd

#61. I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

John Key

#62. Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?

David Mitchell

#63. The shot glass is half drunk.

Brian Spellman

#64. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.

Jaycee Dugard

#65. I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.

Caprice Crane

#66. I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

Prabal Gurung

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

Jodi Picoult

#68. It would probably strip my flesh while giving me vocabulary lessons. I'd be dead but smarter. How's that for glass half full?

A&E Kirk

#69. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.

Marty Rubin

#70. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

Nigahiga

#71. My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.

Suzanne Brockmann

#72. Half full or half empty, just be thankful if your glass has anything in it at all.

D.E. Sievers

#73. Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

Norman Vincent Peale

#74. Dust coated the long-dark light fixtures on the ceiling, at least half of them busted, jagged glass screwed into rusty holes.

James Dashner

#75. I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

Alli Simpson

#76. I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Hamilton Jordan

#77. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Bill Cosby

#78. The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

Mark Miller

#79. I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

Lawrence Fagg

#80. You should never look at the cup or glass as being half empty; see it as being half empty, then you will have mastered the test of greatness.

Barbara Hart

#81. When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

Sherman Alexie

#82. In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I'm the little girl whose cup runneth over.

Sheila C. Johnson

#83. Walker liked to joke that, together, he and his wife owned the entire glass. He took the half-full part, while she usually claimed the empty half.

Alan Orloff

#84. I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

Will Ferrell

#85. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.

Trish Jackson

#86. There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Goldie Hawn

#87. Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

David Kaufman

#88. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Josiah Stamp

#89. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Damon Lindelof

#90. Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

Kevin Jared Hosein

#91. We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

Brian Roberts

#92. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

Scott Stossel

#93. If you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

#94. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

Ana Monnar

#95. Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass
an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

Charles Dickens

#96. Looking at the glass half full seems to help others do the same and help fill their glasses too.

Emilyann Girdner

#97. People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#98. The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Bruce Bartlett

#99. With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Rachel Johnson

#100. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.

Naima Simone