Hopeful Quotes - Page 7

• No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Difficult Situations

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• I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Mum

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• I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

  Kay Ryan

  Encouragement, Home, College

  "It Takes a Community College" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2009.

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• People want to feel hopeful.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Want, Feels

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• Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Hope, Strong

  "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation".

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• Well, no one knows for sure. There are now two competing governments and various armed militias, tribes and clans. Secretary John Kerry and others have said they're hopeful a single government can be formed soon maybe in the coming weeks.

  Tom Bowman

  Government, Two, Tribes

  "U.S. Airstrikes Hit ISIS Training Camp In Libya". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

  Bryan Cranston

  Projects, Critics

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• To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sun, Feels

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.400, Aum Publications

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• Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Century, Daring

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• I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

  Sarah Dessen

  Wall, Waiting, Sitting

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• I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Able, Study

  "James Cameron emerges from 'alien world' at ocean's depths" by Josh Levs, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I`m surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty decent government, it can provide services, it can regulate the economy effectively.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Believe, Government

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Attitude, Fighting

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• The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Light, Climbing

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.401, Aum Publications

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• I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

  Joel Osteen

  Positive, Dad, Father

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• It's a lot better to hope than not to.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational

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• I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

  Irwin Shaw

  Young

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• A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

  Vaclav Havel

  Fundamentals, Improvement, Consciousness

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 1: "Growing Up Outside'", p. 17, 1990.

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• If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

  James E. Faust

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Heart

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• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

  Optimistic

  "CNN Crossfire" with James Carville and Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Writing, Quality

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

  Patricia Arquette

  Ideas, Yuppies, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

  Anne Enright

  Clever, Writing, Thinking

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• I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Kindness, Mean

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• I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Motivated

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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