Quotes About Hope

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

I'm not a total pessimist; I'm excited by the future as well.

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren't we?

One life is way too short to be pessimistic, so you've got to be positive and optimistic.

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

In this pessimistic world, especially in America, a positive outlook is very necessary.

It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.