Miguel de
Cervantes, the Spanish novelist, dramatist and
poet, is best-known for his masterwork, Don Quixote. The classic is still
widely read today, four centuries after its initial publication in 1605.
Cervantes (pictured here) once observed, "Tomorrow will be a new day. When
God sends the dawn, He sends it for all." The following quotations remind
us that hope is the mainspring of life.
Our Hopes Give Us The
Courage and Energy to Embrace Life
"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a
waking man."
Pliny the Elder
"Be hopeful! For tomorrow has never happened before."
Robert Schuller
"Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the
year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."
Pearl Buck
"I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything
else."
Winston Churchill
The Power of
Hope
"There are paths of possibility, towards which it is also our duty to hold
aloft the light, and the name of that light is hope."
Karl Menninger
"Great hopes make great men."
Thomas Fuller
"Never take away hope from any man."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Live from miracle to miracle."
Artur Rubinstein
And Finally...
"Hope! What a wonderful
word it is! Write it indelibly on your mind. H-O-P-E. It is a bright word,
shining and scintillating and dynamic, forward looking, full of courage and
optimism. With this word, let us begin tomorrow."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of
darkness comes the light."
Jean Giraudoux
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
Martin Luther
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so
powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
O. S. Marden
This page is written and
compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
