Neil Peart Quotes

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

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

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

I'm an optimist at heart.

I'm an optimist by nature.

I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

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

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. . .

Now, I happen to be an optimist.

It was hard not to be full of hope

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

I am basically optimistic.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

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

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.