He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Topic: Action, Hope
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
The surest way to relieve a man of his poverty is to make him uncomfortable in it.
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The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
While there's life, there's hope.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
