Jacques Cousteau Quotes

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.

I'm a great believer in possibilities.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.