Best empty & half-empty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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”

Inspirational Choices Half Seeing Empty Glasses Positivity Optimistic Pessimism Righteous Lenses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.”

Language Half Wise Empty Glasses Half Empty

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“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.”

Half Worry Empty Optimism Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

Source: Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

“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.”

Doe Matter Care Age Answers Half Issues Empty Glasses Realism Thirst Who Cares Quench Half Full Half Empty

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

Funny Sides Dark Half Cutting Empty Lips Glasses Teeth Sarcastic Pessimism Dark Side Cracked Half Empty

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

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

Ifs Doe Differences Half Hell Drink Empty Glasses Damn Half Full Half Empty

Book:Angels Fall

Source: Angels Fall

“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.”

Want Half Empty Glasses Aliens Toxic Crawling Parasites Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pancreas

Author:James Alan Gardner

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty”

Feelings Half Empty Surprising Half Empty

Author:Ravi Shastri

“people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big”

People Bigs Church Half Empty Half Empty

Author:Sean Lock

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

Thinking Looks Stuff Half Empty Half Full Half Empty

Author:Pauly Shore

“I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle”

Half Drink Empty Glasses Bottles Half Empty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“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.”

Looks Remember Given Half Empty Glasses Each Day Half Full Half Empty Live Each Day Gifts Of Life Glass Half Full

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“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!!!”

Looks Persons Actors Half Negative Empty Glasses Thinker Hallelujah Half Full Half Empty Positive Thinker

Author:Maya Angelou

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“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.”

People World Looks Perfect Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Nobody's Perfect

Author:Morris Chestnut

“If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass”

Ifs Persons Half Havens Type Empty Glasses Half Empty

Author:Richard Branson

“I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"”

Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.”

Children Half Seeing Empty Our Children Cups Half Empty

Author:Maria Bamford

“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”

Needs Half Easier Empty Glasses Permission Half Full Half Empty

Author:Grace Hopper

“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”

Ifs Needs Wells Bigs Half Design Emotional Empty Treats Environmental Glasses Customers Aesthetic Engineers Optimist Doing Good Pessimist Standpoint Good Design Half Full Half Empty

Author:Yves Behar

“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Rooms Half Empty Bases Sells What If Paranoia Half Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Ladyhawke

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

Thinking Mind Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Oliver Stone

“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.”

Knows Guy Half Fire Negative Empty Glasses Fuel Leaks Nancy Half Empty Curmudgeon

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.”

Thinking Knows Character Term Half Empty Claims Bounds Glasses Boxes Optimistic Promoting Programmes Half Empty Reticence

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“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.”

People Needs Bigs Half Perspective Empty Optimism Glasses Pessimism Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:George Carlin

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)”

People Mean Said Stills Lasts House President White Pay Attention Half Drink Empty Thirds Glasses Dinner White House President Bush Liquid Half Empty

Author:Stephen Colbert

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

Problem Half Empty Filled Glasses Milk Half Empty

Author:Jodi Picoult

“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.”

People Ifs Half Wonder Empty Tables Filled Glasses Beer Half Empty Good Beer

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.”

Half Empty Glasses Bother Half Empty

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Done Views Half Middle Broken Empty Glasses Following Gray Shade Half Empty

Author:Sarah Dessen

“...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.”

Ifs Way Wells May Feelings Half Empty Glasses Half Empty

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“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.”

Inspirational Said Problem Water Half One Day Empty Philosophical Glasses Drank Half Full Half Empty

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“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.”

Should Whole Half Empty Glasses Spills Devastated Half Empty Hopes Up

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Said Two Truth Half Food Type Empty Bigger Glasses Excuse Beer Discworld Excuse Me Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pinching

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Levels Rooms Half Saws Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Level Headed

Book:Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, and Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

Source: Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, and Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

Enough Stuff Half Too Much Empty Half Full Half Empty

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“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.”

Thinking Said Half Type Empty Grateful Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

“Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.”

“What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior. “I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like,” Hadrian explained. “What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?” He shrugged. “What can I say? I’m a glass-half-empty kinda guy.” “Half empty?” Hadrian chuckled. “Was there ever any drink in that glass?”

People Thinking Knows Want Looks Guy Half Saws Fields Drink Empty Moved Glasses Interiors Castles Half Empty Hadrian

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

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

Half Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Alcohol Pouring Drinking Alcohol Great Drinking Great Alcohol Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Bill Cosby

“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.”

Ifs Said Moments Half Figures Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Grandmother Splits My Grandmother Pouring Hesitation Half Full Half Empty

Author:Bill Cosby

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

Ifs Matter Half Crazy Drink Empty Glasses Straws Half Full Half Empty

Author:Joey Comeau

“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.”

People Thinking Inspirational Humor Bigs Half Empty Glasses Emptiness Half Full Half Empty

Author:George Carlin

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Inspirational Inspiration Hate Half Four Empty I Hate Grateful Entrepreneur Glasses Half Empty

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.”

Source: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

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

Ifs Matter Motivation Water Half Empty Entrepreneur Glasses Pouring Half Full Half Empty

Author:Mark Cuban

“There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.”

Thinking Half Focus Creation Empty Glasses Abundance Extensions Cliche Half Full Half Empty

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.”

Half Wonder Fans Empty Glasses Pessimist Spills Cubs Half Empty

Author:Mike Royko

Empty Quotes

Related topics

Empty Quotes