Hoping For The Best Quotes

• In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  World, Worst, This World

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.453, e-artnow

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• Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Success, Money, Business

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• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Moving On, Dream

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• hope for the best, prepare for the worst

  Chris Bradford

  Preparation, Worst, Preparing

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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  Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Success, Personal Growth

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.220, Modern Library

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• Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Hope, Redemption

  "'Different Seasons' ('Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption')". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Hope, Encouragement

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• Hope is a renewable option:
  If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspiring, Running, Dream

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

  Victor Hugo

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

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

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Hope, Latin

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Hope, Planning

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1833). “The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: The Rise of Iskander”, p.61

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• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  Epictetus

  Life, Hope, Niece

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Definition 13: Explanation), 1677.

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• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

  John Lennon

  Teamwork, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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