Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.
Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.
Despair exists only when there is hope.
It's so much easier to be cynical.
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.
Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.
If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics
My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.
An important factor in Scotland’s economic difficulties has been the progressive loss of morale
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.
