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Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

— Charles Stanley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.

— Charles Kennedy

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

— Vaclav Havel

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

— Richard Rohr

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

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

— Al Gore

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

— Studs Terkel

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

— Craig Sager

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

— Lesley Ann Warren

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

— Norman Cousins

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

— James E. Faust