Hope Quotes - Page 23

• Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Fear, Way

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• The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Truth, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.174

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• Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

  David Lloyd George

  Country, Time, Men

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• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Life, Giving, Our Words

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• Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

  Ogden Nash

  Dope, Men, Victim

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Men, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

  David Matthews

  Dark, Night, Shadow

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• I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fear, Inscriptions, Tombs

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• Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

  William H. Hastie

  Achievement, Despair, Needs

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• Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Faith, Christian, Honor

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• Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

  Barack Obama

  Cancer, Audacity, Faces

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Jesus, Lying

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• God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

  Saint Augustine

  Support, Should, Deceiver

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• I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

  Max Lucado

  Opportunity, People, Cynical

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

  Brother Lawrence

  Practice, Three, Have Faith

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Anchors, Giving

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• Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Thanks, Hours, There Is Hope

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• I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Ruffian

  Referring to 'Ossian' in a letter to James Macpherson, 20 January 1775: James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 298

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• Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

  Edward Gibbon

  Comfort, Anticipation, Imperfect

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.45

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• Hope is necessary in every condition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Anticipation, Conditions

  The Rambler No. 67

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Anticipation, Life Is, Figures

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Eye, World

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.93, Princeton University Press

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• Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

  Henri Matisse

  God, Faith, Brother

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

  Bernie Siegel

  Decision, Refusal, Dies

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