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Quotes About Hope

You are not a mere spectator at a contest between cancer cells and killer drugs. Your attitude is important. Your will to get healthy. People give up; sometimes it seems easier to die than hang in there, go the distance... You've got to be your own hero. People need to find things inside themselves they never knew were there.
~ Robert Lipsyte
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Our mission in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in the best of spirits.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We beg delinquents for our life.
~ Robert Lowell
Then morning comes, saying, "This was a night.
~ Robert Lowell
We wished our two souls might return like gulls to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold for us.
~ Robert Lowell
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
~ Robert Lowell
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
~ Robert Lowell
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
~ Robert Ludlum
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
~ Robert Ludlum
There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.
~ Robert Ludlum
Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.
~ Robert Ludlum
Today they are the symbols of the human spirit, and of the world the freedom of the human spirit made.…
~ Robert M. Edsel
A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.
~ Robert M. Hensel
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.
~ Robert M. Price
It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
~ Robert Mallet
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
Let it be the house, please let it be the house.
~ Robert Marasco