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Hope |
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| “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.” |
| -- Pliny, the Elder |
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| "What oxygen is to the lungs,
such is hope to the meaning of life." |
| -- Emil Brunner |
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| "If it were not for hopes, the
heart would break." |
| -- Erich Fromm (1900-80),
German-born American psychoanalyst |
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| "Who dares nothing, need hope for
nothing." |
| -- Schiller |
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| "Hope for a miracle. But don't count on
one." |
| -- Talmud |
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| "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear
unmingled with hope.” |
| -- Baruch Spinoza |
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| “To all the living there is hope, for a living
dog is better than a dead lion.” |
| Bible, Ecclesiastics, 9:4 |
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| “Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that
joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.” |
| -- Sydney Smith |
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| "The question was put to him,
what hope is; and his answer was, 'The dream of a waking man.' " |
| -- Laertius Diogenes (-c. 320
BC), Greek philosopher |
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| "The greatest hope of humans is hope
itself." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "When I stand before God at the end of my
life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent
left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.' " |
| -- Erma Louise Bombeck (b. 1927), American
author, humorist |
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"No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find
The best of now and here." |
| -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), American
poet |
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| "I take as my guide the hope of a saint:
in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all
things, generosity." |
| -- George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), 41st
US President |
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| "Everything that is done in
the world is done by hope." |
| -- Martin Luther (1483-1546),
German theologian, reformation leader |
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| "Hope for
miracles, but don't rely on one." |
| -- Yiddish Proverb |
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| "While there's life, there's hope." |
| -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) |
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| “Most
of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at
all.” |
| --
Dale Carnegie |
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| "If we all worked
on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there
would be little hope of advance." |
| -- Orville Wright |
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| "Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become
reality." |
| -- L. J. Suenens |
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| "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without
hope." |
| -- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940),
German essayist, philosopher, critic |
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| "Hope may be a lying jade, but she does at
any rate lead us to the end of our lives along a pleasant
path." |
| -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French
writer |
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| "If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But
we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we
have hope." |
| -- Jacques Cousteau, French
marine biologist/diver/explorer/videographer |
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| "There are only two lasting bequests we
can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." |
| -- Hodding Carter |
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- "Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not
courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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| -- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
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| "To hope means to be ready at every moment
for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if
there is no birth in our lifetime." |
| -- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-86),
American poet |
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| "Hope is the only universal liar who never
loses his reputation for veracity." |
| -- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-61), English
clergyman |
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| "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal
hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and
observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can
present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's
cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an
extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and
you cannot hope too much or dare too much." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than
rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the
ignorant." |
| -- Epictetus (AD 55?-135?),
Greek Stoic philosopher |
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| "If money is your hope for independence you will never have
it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve
of knowledge, experience, and ability." |
| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947),
American automobile manufacturer |
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| "There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is
started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which
fails so regularly, as love." |
| -- Erich Fromm (1900-80),
German-born American psychoanalyst |
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| "He who has health has hope; and he who has hope
has everything." |
| -- Arabian Proverb |
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| "Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and
hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a
man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German writer, scientist |
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| "If we all worked on the assumption that what is
accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of
advance." |
| -- Orville Wright, Inventor, aviator |
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| "Hope...is the companion of power, and the
mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of
miracles." |
| -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), |
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| "My theory has always been, that if we are
to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than
the gloom of despair." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US
President |
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| "Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe
more." |
| -- Swedish Proverb |
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| "Courage is like love; it must have hope
for nourishment." |
| -- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), |
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| "My hopes are not always realized, but I
always hope." |
| -- Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), Roman poet |
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| "Three grand essentials to happiness in
this life are something to do, something to love, and something to
hope for." |
| -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English
essayist, poet, statesman |
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| "If we all worked on the assumption that
what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope
of advance." |
| -- Orville Wright |
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| "Hope is the thing with feathers -- that
perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never
stops, at all." |
| -- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-86),
American poet |
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| “Waiting is not merely empty hoping. It has the
inner certainty of reaching the goal.” |
| -- I Ching |
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| “Hope is the last thing that dies in man.” |
| -- Rochefoucauld |
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| "Where there is life, there is hope. Where
there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams
repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game
plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that
achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner
commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is
the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and
strife." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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