Samuel Ullman Quotes

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

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

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

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

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.

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

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

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

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?

"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.