Patrick Stewart Quotes

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

I am basically optimistic.

I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human spirit, I don't mean anything divine, I don't mean anything supernatural - certainly not coming from this skeptic.

I've always had great faith in people.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I'm an eternal optimist.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I always was and always will be optimistic.

I'm always an optimist!

I may be an optimist.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.