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Hope is an essential element in a social leader’s life. It is a source of energy and inspiration. How do you renew it? I look to the wise words of those around us. Here are some of my favorite quotes.

It is a Necessity

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone.

Shah Rukh Khan

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It Unleashes Action

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

John Guare, Landscape of the Body

It Fuels Dreams

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die,

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

And, My Favorite

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Nelson Mandela

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