Christopher Moore Quotes

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

I don't want to lose hope.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

Just keep moving forward.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it?