“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
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“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Hope is a waking dream.”
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”
“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
“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.”
“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
“While there's life, there's hope.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
“Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring.”
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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
“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.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”