Orson Scott Card Quotes

I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

All I can do is to try and make the future better.

Hope does not fall from the sky. We create hope ourselves.

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.

I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

I want to convey that there is hope? that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm always amazed at how much love is in people's hearts even when they disagree about things. I think it's important for people to come together in music. It reminds me of the Margaret Mead saying, 'Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. ' I think that's really true.

Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.