“Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.
It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.“
Barack Hussein Obama II (1961 -) President-elect of the United States, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States
November 24th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
I think that B.O. described more the qualities of perseverance as in “goal”,ambition with persistence of action & achiement! Hope is like being in the middle of the desert and “HOPE” for rain, as in MIRACLE! When you reach that level where hoping (for an outcome) is your only “salvation”, you then have NO CONTROL over your situation…It’s only when you’re trying your best at managing your circumstances in any given situation that you can afford to “Hope for the best”,cause you’re doing your part. For my friend, “YOU HAVEN’T FAILED UNTIL YOU QUIT OR GIVE UP!” and that quote is from me….