Hopeless Optimist Quotes

#1. I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

Wendy Kopp

#2. I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.

Rachael Yamagata

#3. I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

Michael Pollan

#4. It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.

Isaiah Thomas

#5. The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.

Dennis Kucinich

#6. I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

Bill Ayers

#7. What an opportunity we have to be a community ... A community where there are models.

Judah Smith

#8. Never give your heart to a blockhead.

Charles M. Schulz

#9. Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.

Quentin L. Cook

#10. There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. - YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia

Timothy Ferriss

#11. You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

Dick Pound

#12. There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

Max Heindel

#13. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#14. But there was something about this girl that made him want to hear her opinions on everything, hear about her day, tell her about his own.

Adi Alsaid

#15. I'll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

Amanda Craig

#16. To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair.
To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Munia Khan

#17. When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

John Owen

#18. And the monkey flips the switch.

Akiva Goldsman

#19. I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

Reinhard Bonnke