Cornel West Quotes

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm always optimistic.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Well, I'm an optimist.

I would say I'm an optimist by nature.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.