Top 85 Half Empty Half Full Quotes
#1. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.
Thomas Cathcart
#2. It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.
Nick Hornby
#3. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
Mattie Stepanek
#4. Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
Criss Jami
#5. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Mary Alice Monroe
#6. If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Brad Thor
#7. Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#8. For you the cup isn't half full or half empty, you're always topping it up.
Rowena Cory Daniells
#9. I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.
Mark Cuban
#10. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
#11. One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#12. I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Pauly Shore
#13. The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you've been given.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.
Chris Kuzneski
#15. Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there. You get my point?
Kristin Hannah
#16. What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regardless of how full the glass is, it's filled with acid, and you'll burn your face off.
T.J. Klune
#17. Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.
David S. Platt
#18. Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!
Stephen Richards
#19. If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.
Karen Quan
#20. The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
Randall Munroe
#21. Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
Larry Winget
#22. People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#23. If you expect to reach the goal of perfection, never look at the cup as being half empty, see it as being half full.
Barbara Hart
#24. Dad loves his father, but he says he has always been the same. Even when his kids were young, Grandpa John was always negative. If Grandma is a glass half full, Grandpa is a totally empty glass with a desert at the bottom of it. Despite
Kaz Campbell
#25. You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.
Kanye West
#26. The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
Grace Hopper
#27. She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more ...
Joanne Fluke
#28. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?
Vera Nazarian
#29. I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#30. An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Oscar Wilde
#31. For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it's half empty.And for an Engineer it is twice
bigger than necessary.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#32. Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.
McCall Hoyle
#33. Half full, half empty - it doesn't matter. It's the same glass of water.
Debbie Viguie
#34. 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
#35. He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away.
Michael Reisman
#36. A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization, half empty, and it will fall to the cultures and economies of FULL rivals.
William L.J. Galaini
#37. So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead ...
Dave Matthes
#38. Think positive and be a half full glass not half empty glass person. Positive thoughts work so much better than negative ones
Raven McAllan
#39. Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
Dave Matthes
#40. To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
Eddie Money
#42. I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty," I told her.
Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring.
Bill Cosby
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey Comeau
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...
Lauren Aquilina
#55. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Nora Roberts
#56. This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
Diane Keaton
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. I will allow others to be there for me. I will share my feelings. I'm not allowed to fake it! I will view the world as a positive place. The cup is half full, not half empty.
Ronnie Sellers
#60. 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
#61. One thinks of lard as a kind of pure high saturated fat but it is only 41 % saturated, while it is mostly (47 %) MUFA, predominantly oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil. So it is a question of whether you think that lard is half full of SFA or half empty.
Richard David Feinman
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan K. Simpson
#66. Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full.
Cynthia Mock Burroughs
#67. The empty quarter, the empty half, the empty outside of a full beaker ... why are these the things he looks for?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
Damon Lindelof
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.
Trish Jackson
#74. 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
#75. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Bill Cosby
#76. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.
Janet Evanovich
#77. Half full or half empty, just be thankful if your glass has anything in it at all.
D.E. Sievers
#78. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga
#79. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.
Marty Rubin
#80. Was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.
Helen Waddell
#81. Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?
David Mitchell
#82. 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
#83. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#84. A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
Wes Fesler
#85. 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
