Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
BARACK OBAMAWe lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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