Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near)

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

Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal)

Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.--Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus

Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine

Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed

Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.--Bantu proverb

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.--Charles Caleb Colton

Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.--Gehles

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.--Aldous Huxley (Reader's Digest, March 1956)

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.--Elizabeth Bowen (The Death of the Heart)

“Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string — the pearls lie scattered on the ground.”  ~ Charles  H. Spurgeon (Nineteenth Century English Preacher)

“God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.”  ~ William Booth (A British Methodist Preacher and founder of the Salvation Army)

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)