Hugh Prather Quotes

You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Optimism is the key.

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

Being that beacon of hope; not just people in Ghana, but any kind of people that have gone through the struggle, I take a lot of light of being that beacon of hope and inspiration for anybody that wants to achieve anything.

We all do our best. We hope we can win.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

Impossible is nothing.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.