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- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
- King Whitney Jr.
- He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
- The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
- Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940), Living My Life, 1931
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
- Unknown
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
- Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945)
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