Able Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

— Thomas Merton

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

— Tony Kushner

I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The…

— Paul Kurtz

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

— Andre Holland

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

— Lin Yutang

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

— Judah Smith

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

— Erich Fromm

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely…

— Donald Barthelme

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to…

— William F. Lynch

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling…

— Toni Morrison