I hope you enjoy these quotes on HOPE:

1. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. -Christopher Reeve

2. The miserable have no other medicine. But only hope. -William Shakespeare

3. Hope is the physician of each misery. -Irish Proverb

4. Hope is faith holding its hand out in the dark. -George Iles

5. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. -Robert Ingersoll

6. Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. -George Weinberg

7. Hope is the word that God has written on the brow of every man. -Victor Hugo

8. Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. -Anonymous

9. You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less
and less. -Anonymous

10. Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. -Anonymous

11. Hope is but the dream of those who wake. -Matthew Prior

12. When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. -Mignon McLaughlin

13. Take hope from the heart of man and make him a beast of prey. -Ouida

14. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would,
without this comfort, be insupportable. -Samuel Johnson

15. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of
God. -Charles Allen

16. 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

17. Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust
them. -Vincent McNabb

18. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. -Pearl Buck

19. When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” -Anonymous

20. 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. -Anne Lamott
Trouble
1) If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. -James Burgh

2) Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
-Robert R. Updegraff

3) I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them—nine-
tenths of them never happened. -Andrew Carnegie

4) Temper is what gets most of us into trouble.  Pride is what keeps us there. -Mark Twain

5) Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be
listening. -Arnold Glasow

6) We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
-Henry Ward Beecher

7)  Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as
possible. Like the tax collector, he is a disagreeable chap to have in one’s house, but the more
amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away. -Artemus Ward

8. The true way of softening one’s troubles is to solace those of others. -Mad. de Maintenon

9) Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have
no share in either its joys or sorrows. -Longfellow

10) The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may
safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
-William Cowper

Boldness
1. Boldness be my friend. -William Shakespeare

2. Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. -John Dryden

3. People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes
on the wheels of progress. -Dale Turner

4. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. -Baltasar Gracian

6. Freedom lies in being bold. -Robert Frost

7. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make
up our minds to walk boldly through them. -Orison Swett Marden

8. -Arnold Palmer

9. Fortune befriends the bold. -John Dryden

10. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. -Homer

11. Act honestly, and answer boldly. -Danish proverb

12. When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you
should take – choose the bolder. -William Joseph Slim

13. Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council
though good in execution. -Francis Bacon

14. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -William Shakespeare

15. In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. -Titus Livy

16. We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. -Christian Nevell Bovee

17. He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
-Baltasar Gracian

Beginning
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not
starting. -Buddha

Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Rohn

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. -Seneca

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you
are. -Unknown

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao Tzu
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go.  They don’t overcome inertia.  They
don’t begin. -W. Clement Stone

What we call the beginning is often the end.  And to make an end is to make a beginning.  The
end is where we start from. -T.S. Eliot

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. -Dave Weinbaum

All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene F. Ware

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. -Proverb

When there is a start to be made, don’t step over!  Start where you are. -Edgar Cayce

Almost everything comes from nothing. -Henry F. Amiel

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is a progress, and working together is a success.
-Henry Ford

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.  That will be the beginning.
-Louis L’Amour

Making the beginning is one third of the work. -Irish Proverb

Small opportunities are often the beginnning of great enterprises. -Demosthenes

Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings. -Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret to getting started is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.
-Mark Twain

You will never win if you never begin. -Robert H. Schuller

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent
van Gogh

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret B. Runbeck

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the
man you want to be. -Bruce Springsteen

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it.  Boldness has genius and power and magic in
it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. -Napoleon Hill

Take the first step in faith.  You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Decision making
Chance favors only the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities
and go to work. -H. L. Hunt

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can
do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. -Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider
all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the
decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important
decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
-Sigmund Freud

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue
persistently. -William A. Ward

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for
inadequate results. -Scott Adams

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -Erica
Jong

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt,
unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late. -Rita Coolidge

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given
concrete form to the intangible desire. -Napoleon Hill

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the
wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. -Theodore Roosevelt

“Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall
victim to what I call the ‘ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome’. You must be willing to fire.” -T.
Boone Pickens
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only
that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. -H. A. Hopf

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions. -Brendan Francis

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world. 
-Anso Coetzer

Knowledge
Here’s a few knowledge quotes for your enjoyment:

I love talking about nothing.  It is the only thing I know anything about. -Oscar Wilde

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. -Anton Chekhov

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. -Lao Tzu

The only source of knowledge is experience. -Albert Einstein

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is
true knowledge. -Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. -Martin H. Fischer

Better know nothing than half-know many things. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Those that know, do.  Those that understand, teach. -Aristotle

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. -Peachy Jr

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. -Kahlil Gibran

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. -Thomas Berger

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and
affection to be art. -Kahlil Gibran
There is much pleasure to be gained from usless knowledge. -Bertrand Russell

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. -Margaret Fuller

Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
-Sophocles

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above
another. -Joseph Addison

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. -Thomas Carlvle

You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock

What do you think about knowledge?  And these quotes?  Any jump out at you?  Please
share your thoughts (knowledge?) below.

Intuition
Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason. -John Kord Lagemann

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. -Anthony J D’Angelo

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
-Alexis Carrel

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. -Rudyard Kipling

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with
ideas. -Immanuel Kant

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. -Florence Scovel
Shinn

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. -Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
-Joyce Brothers

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be
willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. -Shakti Gawain
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. -Michael
Burke

Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do. -Benjamin Spock

Instinct is untaught ability. -Bain

An artist’s instinct is more refined than the typical mortal’s. -Holden Rinehart

Instinct is the nose of the mind. -Madame De Girardin

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will
come round to him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. -Henri
Bergson

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition
and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. -Eileen Caddy

Faith is a passionate intuition. -William Wordsworth

I allow my intuition to lead my path. -Manuel Puig

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. -Fred Frith

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and
psychologists. -Corliss Lamont

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the
experience of the soul itself. -Henry Reed

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. -Jonas Salk

The intuition of free will gives us the truth. -Corliss Lamont

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. -Anne Wilson Schaef

What’s better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
-Manuel Puig

Heart
1) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be
felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

2) The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. -Blaise Pascal

3) All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart. -Carlos Castaneda

4) Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. -H. Jackson Brown

5) My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure. -Lord Alfred Tennyson

6) The mind never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. -Mignon McLaughlin

7) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
-George Bernard Shaw

8 ) The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
-William Butler Yeats

9) Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. -Anthony D’ Angelo

10)  The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man. -Jacques Rousseau

11)  Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda
Fitzgerald

12)  There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -John
Andrew Holmes

13)  In full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-Antonio Porchia

14)  Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

15)  Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. -Shigenori Kameoka

16)  Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put
in every heart. -Mevlana Rumi

17)  He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. -James
Allen

18)  If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. -Jesse
Jackson

19)  The heart is the first feature of working minds. -Frank Lloyd Wright
20)  A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. -Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

PERSONALITY

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. -Roy Croft

It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. -Unknown

A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes. -Mahatma Gandhi

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
-Albert Camus

Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open. -Unknown

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit
into that big black space where the audience is. -Mae West

An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human
behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is
the best possible preparation for success in life. -Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No
one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By
his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and feature. -Viktor Frankl

Personality is everything in art and poetry. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no
personality. -Albert Einstein

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead
people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. -Charles
A. Cerami

Personality is born out of pain.  It is the fire shut up in the flint. -Unknown

Humility is no substitue for a good personality. -Fran Lebowtiz

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way
of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality. -Nadia Boulanger
A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid
of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant. -Hazrat Inayat Khan

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. -T. S.

Eliot

Personality is a mask you believe in. -Dr. White

Attractiveness and magnetism of a man’s personality is the result of his inner radiance. -Yajur
Veda

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. -Soren Kierkegaard

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. -Theodore W. Adorno

Apology
An apology is a good way to have the last word. -Unknown

A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because
he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. -G.K. Chesterton

An apology is the superglue of life.  It can repair just about anything. -Lynn Johnston

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found

While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.  The right sort of people do not want apologies, and
the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. -P.G. Wodehouse   (what about the people in-
between?)

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. -Kimberly Johnson

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. -King Charles I

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. -Red Auerbach
The only good thing about punctuality is that is usually gets you an apology. -Unknown

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. -Unknown

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. -Isaac Friedmann

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -Benjamin
Disraeli

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. -Benjamin Disraeli

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. -Robin Quivers

I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper. -Tracey Emin

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well. -Jim
Rohn

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -Paul Boese

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow
while it’s still warm. -Dan Heist

Cleverness
Cleverness is not wisdom. -Euripides

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. -Henri Frederic Amiel

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. -Elbert
Einstein

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. -Elbert Hubbard

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of
silliness. -Ludwig Wittgenstein
The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it. -Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. -Thomas
Henry Huxley

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. -Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. -Henri Frederic Amiel

It is little that one gains by cleverness. -Unknown

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. -John
Lubbock

The bold are helpless without cleverness. -Euripides

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. -Harriet
Beecher Stowe

Cleanliness
leanliness quotes for your enjoyment:

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and
accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste. -Sri Sathya Sai Baba

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition
. . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality. -Abdu’ul-Baha

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the
world. -George Bernard Shaw

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind. -Joseph Addison

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it
is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look
on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust. -Joseph Addison
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. -Ernie Pyle

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. -Jean Anouilh

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. -Mark Twain

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a
public menace. -Wilson

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. -James Naismith

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. -Lord Chesterfield

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. -Dee Hock

Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses. -Aaron Hill