11 quotes
“Hope is not blind optimism. It is not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead.”
— Barack Obama
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality”
— James Stockdale
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
— Wendell Berry
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”
— Thucydides
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
— Francis Bacon
“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails”
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