Being an England supporter is like being the…

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually,…

— Chris Ware

“I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope.…

— Barack Obama

I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“Nesse’s research focuses on the evolutionary origins of depression. Why does depression exist at all? If it’s stayed in our gene pool for so…

— Jane McGonigal

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is…

— Colum McCann

I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand…

— Barack Obama

I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do…

— Taylor Swift

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism…

— Drew Houston

Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not…

— Barack Obama

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things…

— N. T. Wright

“But all the fighting in the world will not help us if we do not also hope. What i'm trying to cultivate is not…

— Junot Díaz

“Gdmng, Sunshine! This morning, I offer a gentle reminder: even when everything sucks, pretend you’re a wildflower & push through anyway. Isn’t it amazing…

— Rajesh Goyal, राजेश गोयल

“I may not be good at climbing, may lack the upper-body and leg strength required to make me a good cyclist or an ironman…

— Phoebe Smith

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those…

— Barack Obama