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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
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.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.
Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.