Lisa Joy Quotes

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

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

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."

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

He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.