Hope Quotes - Page 7

• Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

  Teresa of Avila

  Long, Soul, Watches

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• When you stop hoping you start settling.

  Valorie Burton

  Inspirational, Stopping, Settling

  FaceBook post by Valorie Burton from Feb 25, 2015

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• Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

  Laini Taylor

  Powerful, Heart, Light

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Uplifting, Buddhist

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• I still believe in a place called Hope.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, America, Stills

  "A Place Called Hope". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President, July 16, 1992.

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
  And hope without an object cannot live.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Work, Nectar, Draws

  'Work Without Hope' (1825)

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Circles, Knowing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Anticipation

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I always entertain great hopes.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Business, Host

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• 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 DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Powerful

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Courage, Compassion, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Procrastination

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• He who does not hope to win has already lost.

  Jose Joaquin de Olmedo

  Swimming, Winning, Doe

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• The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Trust, Dream, Block

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Laughter, Eye

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• Hopes have precarious life.
  They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
  In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

  George Eliot

  Growth, Vigorous, Withered

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4195, Delphi Classics

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• Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 28), 1997.

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• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Wind, Sea, Sailing

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• Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Lasts, Dies

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• The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

  Cornel West

  Life, Country, Patience

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• Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

  Eric Maisel

  World, Pick Yourself Up, Plans

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