The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
“So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
“Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You're such an optimist Kane -- that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.” — Paul Grist Copy Share Image
Cynicism often draws correct conclusions, but nobody could live by its lights. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.” — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun Copy Share Image
Practice justice, mercy and humility rather than cynicism, arrogance & judgmentalism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
