“I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.”
Hopeful feeling
Hopeful Quotes — page 63 of 783
“Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.”
“Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”
“Where there is hope...there is life”
“We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”
“Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.”
“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.”
“Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”
“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
“Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”
“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
“At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.”
“Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.”
“I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.”
“They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!”
“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work”
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.”
“You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”