Top 84 Quotes About The Glass Half Full
#1. 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
#3. Focusing on the good isn't just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It's about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
Shawn Achor
#5. Looking at the glass half full seems to help others do the same and help fill their glasses too.
Emilyann Girdner
#6. I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.
Ana Monnar
#7. 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
#8. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Bill Cosby
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I see the glass half full ... but of poison.
Woody Allen
#13. Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.
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Sarah Jane Butfield
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Jason Jack Miller
#17. 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
#18. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Mary Alice Monroe
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
Steve King
#30. I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always sunny even though the sky foreboding.
Joseph V. Angeles
#31. Please don't look at the part of the glass that is only half full.
George W. Bush
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#39. I was a glass half full kind of girl. I had to be, otherwise I'd be a hand me the crack pipe kind of girl.
L. H. Cosway
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Half full, half empty - it doesn't matter. It's the same glass of water.
Debbie Viguie
#43. You always think everything is so easy," Royce replied, wiping his eyes.
"I'm just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How's your glass looking these days?"
"I have no idea. I'm still trying to get over the sheer size of it.
Michael J. Sullivan
#44. Together, we overcome the drought of happiness and goodness, by seeing our glasses half full and helping fill others' glasses back up with love.
Emilyann Girdner
#45. To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
Eddie Money
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey Comeau
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Darynda Jones
#54. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#55. I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.
George W. Bush
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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.
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. [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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.
Marty Rubin
#68. 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
#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. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.
Mark Miller
#74. I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
Alli Simpson
#75. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga
#76. People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Nora Roberts
#84. 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
