Peter Medawar Quotes

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Ever up and onward.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

I like to think I am the sort of person who tries to make the best of things and try to look at the positive side of things.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

All you can do is just make the most of what you've got. You try to make the most of where you are to get back to where it is that you want to be.

I feel, that I'm only going to get better.

You just gotta stay positive and take every day as a chance to improve and every practice. And every week you're not having a fight, there's a chance to improve.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.