Hopeful Quotes - Page 26

• One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Suicide, Art, Writing

  70 Copy quote

• Patience is the art of hoping.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Patience, Art

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

  Florence Littauer

  Encouragement, Self Worth, Giving

  Florence Littauer (1989). “Silver Boxes: The Encouragement Gift”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts — in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.

  Lierre Keith

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

  11 Copy quote

• I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

  Libba Bray

  Stupid, World, Flawed

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Hope, Sunshine

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

  Marshall Ganz

  Destiny, People, Age

  13 Copy quote

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hope, Children, Eye

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

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  Average, New Day, Ordinary

  19 Copy quote

• By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

  Carl Sagan

  Fate, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 13: "Who Speaks for Earth?", 1990.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

  Martin Seligman

  Positive Thinking, Work Out, Optimism

  14 Copy quote

• The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  17 Copy quote

• I never met a hopeful Christian who didn't read their Bible.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Mets

  16 Copy quote

• One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Past

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

  Tori Spelling

  Silly, Home, Black And White

  8 Copy quote

• This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

  Alice Waters

  Thoughtful, Inspire, Gathering

  "40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Substance, World

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  25 Copy quote

• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Cynical, Patriotism

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always entertain great hopes.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Hope, Business

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  Eleanor Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Character

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

  Donald Sutherland

  Beautiful, Negative, Wave

  64 Copy quote

• Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Journey

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Hope, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source