Disappointed Idealist Quotes

#1. men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft.

V.E Schwab

#2. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist.

Jon F. Merz

#4. Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

#6. It will always be the ultimate, because you're my ultimate.

Erin McCarthy

#7. I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

Elisabeth Rohm

#8. If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Krista Tippett

#9. The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.

Orrin Woodward

#10. Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin