„With the help of these two points of relation, he hoped to project his lines forward and backward indefinitely, subject to correction from any one who should know better. Thereupon, he sailed for home.“

„5335. Two things a Man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.“

—  Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
Varianta: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

„If he could read a line, just understand one sign. Close his mouth and hear the peace of hope and fear, if he could read a line. If he could keep in time.“

—  Dawud Wharnsby Canadian musician 1972

"The Poets"
The Poets And The Prophet (2006)

„He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight.“

—  H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956

1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Kontext: Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without. The free man is one who has won a small and precarious territory from the great mob of his inferiors, and is prepared and ready to defend it and make it support him. All around him are enemies, and where he stands there is no friend. He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight. He has made of himself a sort of god in his little world, and he must face the responsibilities of a god, and the dreadful loneliness.

„No one knows how I feel,
What I say unless you read between my lines,
One man walked away from me
First he took my hand, take me home.“

—  Stevie Nicks American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac 1948

Stand Back
The Wild Heart (1983)

„Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.“

—  Philip K. Dick, kniha VALIS

VALIS (1981)

„He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha Neptunův syn

Zdroj: The Son of Neptune

„He, therefore, who desires peace, should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory, should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success, should fight on principle, not chance. (Book 3, Foreword)“

—  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, kniha De re militari

De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"
Originál: (la) Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum; qui uictoriam cupit, milites inbuat diligenter; qui secundos optat euentus, dimicet arte, non casu.
Varianta: Si vis pacem para bellum. ("If you want peace, prepare for war.")

„Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.“

—  Meister Eckhart German theologian 1260 - 1328

Sermon I : The Attractive Power of God

„I don't forgive him," I said.
"Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?“

—  Kelley Armstrong, kniha Frostbitten

Zdroj: Frostbitten

„The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches. It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain. And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways. It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him. That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty.“

—  Niccolo Machiavelli, kniha Vladař

Zdroj: The Prince (1513), Ch. 19; translated by W. K. Marriot

„I have to keep walking forward. I have to do the best that I can and hope that everything I've learned from these men helps me do things better than they did.“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

pg. 60
Pretty Mess book (2018)

„The making of a true Home is really our peculiar and inalienable right; a right which no man can take from us, for a man can no more make a Home than a drone can make a hive. He can build a castle or a palace, but, poor creature! be he wise as Solomon and rich as Croesus, he cannot turn into a Home. No masculine mortal can do that. It is a woman, and only a woman; a woman all by herself if she likes, and without any man to help her, who can turn a House into a Home.“

—  Frances Power Cobbe Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette 1822 - 1904

Lecture IV, pp. 114-115
The Duties of Women (1881)

„There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.“

—  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 12th President of Turkey from 2014 1954

Boris Johnson wins The Spectator’s President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition, 18 May 2016. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/boris-johnson-wins-the-spectators-president-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/
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„There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.“

—  Boris Johnson British politician, historian and journalist 1964

Boris Johnson wins The Spectator’s President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition, 18 May 2016. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/boris-johnson-wins-the-spectators-president-erdogan-offensive-poetry-competition/
2010s, 2016

„A young man should serve his parents at home and be respectful to elders outside his home. He should be earnest and truthful, loving all, but become intimate with humaneness. After doing this, if he has energy to spare, he can study literature and the arts.“

—  Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 př. n. l.

Originál: (zh_Hant) 弟子，入則孝，出則弟，謹而信，凡愛眾，而親仁。行有餘力，則以學文。
Zdroj: The Analects, Other chapters

„A person who is on his way to spiritual growth must try to reduce his own selfishness and his strong desire for acquiring more and more. He should reduce his strong attachment to possessions which, if he is not mindful, can enslave him to greed. What he owns or has should instead be used for the benefit and happiness of others: his loved ones as well as those who need his help.“

—  K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera Sri Lankan Buddhist monk 1919 - 2006

"Real Charity"
What Buddhists Believe (1993)

„And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.“

—  Harvey Milk American politician who became a martyr in the gay community 1930 - 1978

A version of his staple "Hope Speech," quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 363

„Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.“

—  Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954