Molly Ivins Quotes

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.

I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

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

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

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

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

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

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

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.