A Quote by John W. Gardner

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner
American - Educator
October 8, 1912 - February 16, 2002

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Joseph Batten

And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Cassandra Clare

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson

The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

Zygmunt Bauman

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Charlotte Rampling

I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

Kelly Easton

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

Greg van Eekhout

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

Jonah Goldberg

When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

Sun Yat-sen

Keep hope alive!

Jesse Jackson

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

Robert Hass

The group For Our Future's Sake will tour key marginal constituencies to ensure first that young people register to vote then, second, that they use that vote tactically to keep their hope of a final Brexit referendum alive.

Betty Boothroyd

I hope to be able to keep surfing as long as I'm alive.

Garrett McNamara

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Kofi Annan

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

John W. Gardner

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

Dee Dee Myers

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