Blind Quote by Louise Erdrich

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't…

— Helen Caldicott

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

— Ai Weiwei

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of…

— Price Pritchett

It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor that one…

— Pope Francis

I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

— Bruce Springsteen

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that…

— Vaclav Havel

Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well.

— Senoraroy

I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.

— John Lithgow

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

— David Rakoff

Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado