Cautious Hope Quotes

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too. The way forward is a kind of cautious, commonsense approach - a cautious, humble hope. No fantasies.

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

I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.

Based on past experience, I hope not.

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.