According to Shane Lopez, who wrote the book "Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others", hopeful people have four main beliefs:
1. Their future will be better than the present.
2. They have the power to make it so.
3. There are many paths to their goals.
4. None of them is free of obstacles.
Lopez says that optimism is an attitude. But hope is both the belief in a better future and the action to make it happen.
We may be a realist or pessimist, yet when something that is important to us, we will still take action hoping or expecting some kind of positive results.
Now, let's ponder over these 11 quotes about being hopeful:
"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." - Robert G. Ingersoll
liar, reputation, veracity
"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." - George Weinberg
abandon
"Keep believing, and hope will keep accompanying you." - Quotesan
believe, accompany
"While there is life, there is hope." - Cicero
life
"Hope is the poor man's bread." - Gary Herbert
poor, man, bread
"Once you choose hope, you choose possibilities." - Quotesan (The Lady Who Flirts With 11 Quotations)
possibilities
"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." - George Iles
faith, hand, dark
"Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle
dream
"There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope." - Baruch Spinoza
fear
"Hope and fear are inseparable." - François de La Rochefoucauld
fear,
"To live without hope is to cease to live." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
live, hope,
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