Hope galvanises action…

• It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. Eric Hoffer
• Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action. John Armstrong
• Without hope and confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men’s hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected. Klas Pontus Arnoldson
• Thoughts lead to words, words lead to actions, and hope is the thread that binds up each. Aimee Angle
• Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
• Hope is the spur of life. Edward Counsel
• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss
• A man full of hope will be full of action. Thomas Brooks
• Hope is what motivates us to work hard and get things done. It’s the idea that something better will happen in the future because of what we do. George Anderton
• Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. Paulo Freiri
• Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor. Samuel Johnson
• Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible, and then working for it. Bernie Siegel
• Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. Martin Luther
• Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. William Sloan
• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Norman Cousins
• Hope is the mainspring of human action. Alfred Billings Street
• Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time”. Dr. Seuss

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…for hope brings energy

• Hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow. Lewis B. Smedes
• As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. Laozi
• When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present. Zig Ziglar

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Hope involves a commitment to action

• Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action…. What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for…as far as that power lies in us. John Polkinghorne

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Hope is a choice to take action

• Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action. Anna Lappe

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Real hope must always be combined with action

• Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Jenni Schaefer
• Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories. David J. Schwartz
• It’s not just about hope and ideas. It’s about action. Shirin Ebadi
• Hope is a strange invention – A Patent of the Heart – In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. Emily Dickinson
• After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work. Beryl Markham

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Action, in turn, feeds hope

• When one takes action for others, one’s own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. Daisaku Ikeda
• The food of hope is meditative action. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Bradley Whitford
• 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. Barack Obama
• Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up. David Orr
• A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. Steven Pressfield
• Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year. Ray Bradbury
• As long as you keep trying there’s still hope.

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Without action, there is no hope

• Action is hope. There is no hope without action. Ray Bradbury
• As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy- turvy and ineffective. Jurgen Moltmann
• Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. Rebecca Solnit
• Hope and milk sour by standing. Austin O’Malley
• The only recognizable feature of hope is action. Grace Paley
• Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. Peter Levi

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