Seneca the Younger Quotes

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

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

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

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

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

I'm trying to just take things as they come, not to try to expect too much, just do my job and hope things work out.

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.