Lynn Schusterman Quotes

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

Hope, like the gleaming taper

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

To young people: you have to stay encouraged.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

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I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.