Barack Obama: The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within. — Barack Obama

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. — Samuel Johnson
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;— How many hearts have nourished a va — Letitia Elizabeth Landon The London Literary Gazette
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and mea — William Shakespeare
Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope. — Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as — Oscar Wilde
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy — Swami Vivekananda
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each — Barbara Streisand . Quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss
Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!” Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Sê todo em cada coisa. — Fernando Pessoa
And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hop — Fernando Pessoa
Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, — Bayard Taylor
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disci — Anton Chekhov