Madeleine Albright Quotes

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

I really am a cockeyed optimist.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

I'm an optimist by nature.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

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

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.