1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness

2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps

3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose

4– John Bogle , Investing

5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative

6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort

7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction

8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing

9– Albert Camus, Hope

10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference

11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation

12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening

13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions

14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life

15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself

16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money

17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride

18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means

19– George Eliot, Regrets

20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self

22– Malcolm Forbes, Character

23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality

24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity

25– Thomas Fuller, Hope

26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony

27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity

28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender

29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure

30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles

31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort

32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity

33– William James, Attitude

34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle

35– Helen Keller, Changing the World

36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort

37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work

38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work

39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life

40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience

41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge

42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work

43– David McKay, Challenge

44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect

45– Louis Nizer, Religion

46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity

47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals

48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes

49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams

50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear

51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement

52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses

53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness

54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others

55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers

56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself

57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity

58– John Steinbeck, Leadership

59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential

60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself

61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?

62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds

63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes

64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred

65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future

 
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Hope
Thomas Fuller

 
     
 
  "Great hopes make great men."
   
  Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), English Historian
 
     
     
  Although he held many positions in the clergy, Fuller is best known for historical writing enlivened with epigrams and anecdotes. His most important book is "History of the Worthies of England" (1662), the first attempt at a national biography. "The Holy State, the Profane State" (1642) is a collection of biographies of English writers. Other historical work includes "The Church History of Britain" (1655), and "The History of the University of Cambridge (1655).

After studying at Cambridge, Fuller began his career as a preacher in London in 1641. He actively took the side of the Royalists during the ascendancy of Oliver Cromwell and the ensuing Civil War. Not only did he serve as a chaplain to the Royalist Army, he also wrote a satire, "Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician" (1646), against Cromwell. The monarchy was restored shortly before Fuller’s death, and he ended his career as it had begun, as a scholar at Cambridge.