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- Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
- Bruce Barton
- 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
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
- Dio Lewis
- Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
- Richard M. DeVos
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
- Austin O'Malley
- If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
- Upham
- It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
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