Cornel West Quotes

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

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

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.'

It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.