Norman Cousins Quotes

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

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

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.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

Progress really is possible.

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.