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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Political Ideals (1917)
- Change
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), Act 1
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë1816–185515 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
- Faith
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Backbone of Night [Episode 7], 0 min 40 sec
- Science
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Jailbird (1979), p. 14
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959The Living City (1958)
- Time
For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994Press conference held at the Grand Central Terminal’s famous Oyster Bar in 1975 in New York City
- History
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996)
- Motivation & Goals
The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Nobel Prize acceptance speech (December 2009)
What happens to a dream deferred?
Langston Hughes1901–1967Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), “Harlem”
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn1922–2010A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270.
- Time
We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Message on the Voyager Golden Record (June 1977)