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Hope Quotes

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

Hope, Dawn, May, Night

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"A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions."

"A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions."

James Payn, English Novelist

Hope, Evil, Poverty

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"Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems."

"Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems."

Gary Hopkins, American Author

Hope, Strength, Survival, Comparison

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"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."

"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."

Anne Frank, German Writer

Hope, Change, Truth, Observation

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"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth."

"Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth."

Leslie Charteris, British Writer

Hope, Job, Worth

25

"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."

"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."

Ralph Bunche, American Diplomat

Hope, Nations, United, World

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"Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have."

"Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Hope, Effect, Emotion, Inspirational

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"Light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated."

"Light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Hope, Light, Darkness, Victory

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"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation."

"Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Hope, Optimism, Divorce, Represents

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"I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop."

"I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop."

Shannon Hale, American Author

Hope, Death, Life, Pain, Awareness

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"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure."

"Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure."

Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist

Hope, Adventure, Day, Will

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"What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do."

"What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do."

Mike Farrell, American Actor

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"I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it - that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?"

"I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it - that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Hope, Depression, Happiness, Discovery, Life

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"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."

"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."

James Montgomery, British Poet

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"As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul."

"As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul."

Richard Helms, American Celebrity

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"I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again."

"I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again."

Oliver North, American Soldier

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"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."

Thomas Reed, American Politician

Hope, Legislation, World

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"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Hope, Purpose, Self, Sense

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"In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live."

"In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live."

Fanny Kemble, English Actress

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"We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win."

"We weren't here to hope and hang on. We wanted to win."

Eric Schmidt, American Businessman

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"Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rather will eat, embrace, sing, laugh, and dance in the kingdom of God, in degrees of power, glory, and joy that we can't at the present imagine."

"Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rather will eat, embrace, sing, laugh, and dance in the kingdom of God, in degrees of power, glory, and joy that we can't at the present imagine."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Hope, Kingdom, Joy, Faith

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"If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own."

"If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Hope, Storm, Rainbow, Creativity, Optimism

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"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."

"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."

Wallace Shawn, American Actor

Hope, Country, Horror, states

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"An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength."

"An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength."

Adam Schiff, American Politician

Hope, Strength, America, Ideals

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"Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds."

"Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds."

Gordon B. Hinckley, American Clergyman

Hope, Perseverance, Encouragement, Strength

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"I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left."

"I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left."

Alexander Henry, American Businessman

Hope, Law, Lawyers, Man

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"I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed."

"I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

Hope, Being, Will

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"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future."

"Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future."

Mark Helprin, American Novelist

Hope, Children, Future

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"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Hope, First, Nothing, Will

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"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

William Samuel Johnson, American Politician

Hope, Comfort, Poverty, Sickness

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"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."

"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."

William Christopher, American Actor

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"You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order."

"You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order."

Mike Huckabee, American Politician

Hope, Heroes, Order

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"I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait."

"I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait."

Otto Frank, German Celebrity

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"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."

"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."

Elizabeth Edwards, American Lawyer

Hope, Positive, Act, Effort

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"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

Barack Obama, American President

Hope, Action, Goodness, Motivational

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"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."

"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."

Nick Stahl, American Actor

Hope, Magic, Man, Pretty

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"You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

"You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Hope, Society, Connection, Family, Unity

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"Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible."

"Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Hope, Christian, Impossibility, Faith, Belief

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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances."

"Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth

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"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent."

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Hope, Blood, Duty, Freedom

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"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope."

"In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope."

Charles Revson, Canadian Businessman

Hope, Cosmetics

22

"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve."

"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve."

Tammy Baldwin, American Politician

Hope, Democracy, Enemies, Freedom

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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Hope, Disappointment, Fulfillment

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"The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are."

"The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are."

Ally Condie, American Author

Hope, Humility, Universe, Perspective, Awareness

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"Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light."

"Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Hope, Darkness, Light, Perspective

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"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."

"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."

Howard Mumford Jones, American Writer

Hope, Conformity, Lies, Now

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"By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe."

"By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe."

Natan Sharansky, Russian Writer

Hope, Democracy, Freedom, Security

22

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough."

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough."

Richard M. DeVos, American Businessman

Hope, Optimism, Positive, Smile

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