Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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

And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Optimistic people generally feel that good things will last a long time and will have a beneficial effect on everything they do. And they think that bad things are isolated: They won't last too long and won't affect other parts of life.

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

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

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

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

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

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

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

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing.

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

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

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

I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm always optimistic.