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“What is the difference between people who thrive and people who decline over a long period of time? It’s not that they don’t get knocked down; it’s that they bounce back up. Every successful person I can think of has had to come back from discouraging circumstances. That’s true of people I know personally and those I read about in the Bible. As a matter of fact, every single person in the Bible is a comeback story from something.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“Adequate resources don’t change the world. People with hearts strengthened by hope change the world!”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“When a struggling individual gets just a 10 percent boost in hope, almost anything becomes possible.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“If one falls down,” says Ecclesiastes 4:10, “his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. EDWIN LOUIS COLE”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“Hope can seem like cotton candy, which tastes good at first, but there’s nothing to it. Real hope is a deep and powerful force when it is anchored in the seven factors that sustain hope.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“In fact, picture what happens when a person of genuine hope comes into your life. All it takes is one. In a flash, the whole atmosphere changes. The impossible actually starts to look possible (think Steve Jobs). Defeat starts to look like it could be turned to victory (think Peyton Manning). Difficult things begin to look like they might actually be possible (think Nelson Mandela). Courage replaces fear, and strength chases away powerlessness. Yes, hope is that important”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“if you don’t set goals, you move through life from crisis to crisis. Without a dream for your life, you’re a reactor, not an actor. Boredom, because you have nothing to shoot for and nothing powerful to capture your interest. Without a dream, you move from diversion to diversion, and they all get old sooner rather than later. Regret, because you will tend to say, “If only I’d done this” or “If only I’d done that.” That’s tragic, because we all have the freedom to choose.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“The brilliant psychologist Larry Crabb wrote, “The core battle in everyone’s life is to relate well to God, to worship him, enjoy him, experience his presence, hear his voice, trust him in everything, always call him good, obey every command (even the hard ones), and hope in him when he seems to disappear.”8 Crabb concluded, “That’s the battle the community of God is called to enter in each other’s lives.”9 That’s a battle I cannot win alone. I need a community that is waging the same war to include me in the fight. None of us can win the battle alone, and God didn’t design us to win alone. We win the lifelong battle to stay encouraged and hold on to hope only as we join others who need our help to win their battles as well. A local Christian hero and statesman, Bryce Jessup, said the key to his whole life and his stellar twenty-five-year run as a college president boils down to one line: “Dream a dream and build a team.”10 I’d add only that a dream without a team is merely a wish. Who is on your team?”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
“Hope sparks dreams, and dreams bring into existence some incredible initiatives. Every one of those initiatives started with hope.”
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
― The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
