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Get Inspired for Virtue 6: Transcendence and Strengths of Meaning and Connection

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.  

- Maya Angelou  

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.  

- Dr. Robert Anthony  

Hope is a waking dream.  

- Aristotle  

Hope is the dream of a waking man.  

- Aristotle  

Hope is the parent of faith.  

- Cyrus A Bartol  

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.  

- Hal Borland  

Hope is the best part of our riches.  

- Christian Nevell Bovee  

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.  

- Robert Browning  

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.  

- George Washington Carver  

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.  

- Gilbert K Chesterton  

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do, but keep his house open to hope.  

- John Ciardi  

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.  

- Marcus T. Cicero  

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.  

- Leonard Cohen  

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.  

- Fyodor Dostoevski  

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  

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.  

- Thomas Fuller  

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.  

- Vaclav Havel  

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.  

- William Hazlitt  

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.  

- Jesse Jackson  

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.  

- John Johnson  

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.  

- Samuel Johnson  

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?  

- Immanuel Kant  

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.  

- Martin Luther King Jr.  

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.  

- Charles Kingsley  

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.  

- Barbara Kingsolver  

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.  

- Abraham Lincoln  

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.  

- Orison Swett Marden  

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.  

- Herman Melville  

The safest hope is in heaven.  

- Motto  

He who does not hope to win has already lost.  

- Jose Joaquin Olmedo  

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.  

- Ovid  

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.  

- Matthew Prior  

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.  

- Arabian Proverb  

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.  

- French Proverb  

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.  

- Italian Proverb  

Were it not for hope the heart would break.  

- Scottish Proverb  

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.  

- Charles Revson  

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.  

- Wallace Rice  

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.  

- Ruckett  

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.  

- Charles Sawyer  

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.  

- Robert H Schuller  

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.  

- Samuel Smiles  

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.  

- Source Unknown  

Our hopes are but memories reversed.  

- Source Unknown  

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.  

- Virgil  

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.  

- Sidney A Weltmer  

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