"Man must use what he has, not hope…" — G I Gurdjieff

"Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not."

— G I Gurdjieff

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70 Quotes by G I Gurdjieff

G I Gurdjieff has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped.…
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they…
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will…
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits…
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
Life is real only then, when "I am".
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is…
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all…

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More Hope Quotes

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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving… — Arthur Ashe
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can… — Julian Assange
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race -… — Margaret Atwood

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