Norman Cousins Quotes

Where there is hope...there is life

Hope is the mainspring of life.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

While we breathe, we will hope.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

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.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Every single one of us needs hope.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.