Guarded Optimism Quotes

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

I know God is watching out for me, and he's saying, 'OK, son, watch your step now. You can be in these places, but just be careful. Keep your guard up.'

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

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

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

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.

I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.