Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything." —Jack Kornfield

The strongest hearts have the most scars." —Unknown

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." —Margaret Thatcher

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

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr. 

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life) 

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld 

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine 

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 

"Hope" is the thing with feathers--That perches in the soul--And sings the tune without the words--
and never stops – at all.--Emily Dickenson 

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.--Oliver Goldsmith (The Captivity) 

Hope means believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.--Jim Wallis (Speaking of Faith interview, Nov. 29, 2007 

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.--John C. Maxwell ( Sometimes you Win - Sometimes you Learn) 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To be Blest.--Alexander Pope (Essay on Man, Epistle 1, 1.95) 

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.--Jim Wallis (The Soul of Politics: a Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change)

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source) 

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

Thinking "I failed" is a copout! It lets you off the hook. Game over, dude. I am not about to let you off so easily. Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. This method of thinking requires a lot more energy than "I blew it." Instead, explode your limiting mindset. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity?-Devora Zack (Networking for People Who Hate Networking) 

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.--Richard M. DeVos 

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.--Nido Qubein 

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.--Thomas F. Woodlock 

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.--William James 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.--John Wayne 

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.--James F. Byrnes