Hope

Hope looks for the good in people
instead of harping on the worst.
Hope opens doors where despair closes them.
Hope discovers what can be done instead
of grumbling about what cannot.
Hope draws its power from a deep trust
in God and the basic goodness of human nature.
Hope "lights a candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.
Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
Hope sets big goals and is not frustrated
by repeated difficulties or setbacks.
Hope pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit.
Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing
that "the longest journey starts with one step."
Hope accepts misunderstandings as the
price for serving the greater good of others.
Hope is a good loser because it has the
divine assurance of final victory.
-Father James Keller
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
- Erik H. Erikson
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
- Herbert Hoover
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Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
- Johnson
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
- François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
- Samuel Smiles
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Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
- Hal Borland
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver
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Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.
- Author Unknown
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Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
-Unknown
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He who has help has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Arab Proverb
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Hope can neither be affirmed or denied.
Hope is like a path in the countryside:
originally there was no path -yet as people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Lu Xun (1881-1936)
Chinese writer
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell
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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
- Jean Kerr
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There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.
Mary Becket
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Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle
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Hope and fear are inseparable.- La Rochefoucauld
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller
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For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Last Updated by Virginia Young on Thursday, 27 February, 2003 at 11:35 AM.

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