Klas Pontus Arnoldson Quotes

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.

People are optimistic about the future.

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

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

The American is by nature optimistic.

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.

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

I'm more optimistic than most.

I really am a cockeyed optimist.

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

I'm a real optimist.

I am a hopeless optimist.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.