"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]"

Bible on faith
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"For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."

Bible on faith
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"The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize."

Barton, Bruce on faith
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"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. on faith
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"Faith is a continuation of reason."

Adams, William on faith
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee."

Jansen, H. E. on defeat   

"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

Mitchell, Margaret on fights and fighting   

"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive."

Kahn, Master on fights and fighting
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"I have not yet begun to fight."

Jones, John Paul on fights and fighting   

"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope."

Gunther, Max on fights and fighting   

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on fights and fighting
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself."

Smuts, Jan Christian on defeat   

"Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact."

Peale, Norman Vincent on defeat   

"Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on defeat
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on defeat
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

Macarthur, Douglas on defeat
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"Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed."

Garfield, James A. on defeat   

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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