"There
is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and
no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
-- Orison Swett Marden
As
long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly
he is not a failure
-- Orison Swett Marden
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“Just
can't live that negative way...make way for the
positive day!”
-- Bob Marley
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"It
seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear
mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can,
hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them
eventually."
-- Abraham Maslow
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"For
me there is no hope without faith. Faith in a
higher good. Faith in our own divinity."
-- Alyssa Milano
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"I
have to be an optimist and say that it might get
better. I am a mixture of idealist and realist."
-- Sir Roger Moore |
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Nothing
worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore,
we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good
makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however
virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are
saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from
the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which
is forgiveness.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Hope
is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that
our destiny will not be written for us, but by
us; by all those men and women who are not content
to settle for the world as it is; who have courage
to remake the world as it should be. -- Barack
Obama
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Hope
-- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the
face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! --
Barack Obama
On
every front there are clear answers out there
that can make this country stronger, but we're
going to break through the fear and the frustration
people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that
even as we make progress, that we are also giving
people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
-- Barack Obama
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Practice
hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve
a permanently happy spirit.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"Become
a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to
be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities
-- always see them, for they're always there."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Consult
not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not
about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled
potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what is still possible for you
to do.
-- Pope John XXIII
For
hope is but the dream of those that wake.
-- Matthew Prior
Sanity
may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life
as it is and not as it should be.
-- Don Quixote
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Your
emotional state has a tremendous amount to do
with sickness, health and well-being. For years,
my husband and I lived on -- and because of --
hope.
-- Dana Reeve
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"We
have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction
that there is a better life, a better world, beyond
the horizon."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
There
is no hope of joy except in human relations.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"At
a time when everything seems so out of control
and the people you've elected are bogus and there's
so much random violence and hatred, it fills you
with such hope and admiration to even be part
for a short time in a community where people have
connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.
"
-- Susan Sarandon
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Hope
is a powerful emotion that gives us strength and
helps us through trying and difficult times. With
hope, we believe that things will get better,
and we find the courage to keep trying.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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The
thought that life could be better is woven indelibly
into our hearts and our brains.”
-- Paul Simon
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"Hope
is the seed of liberation."
-- Jon Sobrino
Courage,
it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome
danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing
to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is
good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense
beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
-- Dorothy Thompson
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Lord
save us all from a hope tree that has lost the
faculty of putting out blossoms.
-- Mark Twain
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The
point of living and of being an optimist, is
to be foolish enough to believe the best is
yet to come.
-- Peter Ustinov
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Infuse
your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen.
Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your
own hope.
-- Bradley Whitford
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Just
as despair can come to one another only from other
human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only
by other human beings.
-- Elie Wiesel |
"There
was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise
or hope."
-- Bern Williams
"Happy
is the soul that has something to look backward to with
pride, and something to look forward to with hope."
--Oliver G. Wilson
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A
mentor is someone who allows you
to see the hope inside yourself.
--
Oprah Winfrey
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Hope
is like a road in the country; there was never a road,
but when many people walk on it, the road comes into
existence.
--Lin Yutang
"Your
hopes, dreams & aspirations are legitimate. They are
trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above
the storms — if you will only let them."
--Dan Zadra
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To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
romantic. It is based on the fact that human history
is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What
we choose to emphasize in this complex history
will determine our lives. If we see only the worst,
it destroys our capacity to do something.
-- Howard
Zinn
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To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic.
It is based on the fact that human history is a history
not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice,
courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this
complex history will determine our lives. If we see
only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
If we remember those times and places -- and there are
so many -- where people have behaved magnificently,
this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility
of sending this spinning top of a world in a different
direction. And if we do act, in however small a way,
we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and
to live now as we think human beings should live, in
defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous
victory.
-- Howard
Zinn
Hope
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