Ralph W. Sockman Quotes

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

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'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

I'm always optimistic.

I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

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

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Well, I'm an optimist.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

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

For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.

I am, if nothing else, an optimist.

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.

Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

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

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Hope is a moral choice.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.