Oswald Spengler Quotes

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

There is always a reason you can’t do something.

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

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.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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 don't have any expectations of anything.

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.