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Hope

Some of the best quotes are about the belief that circumstances in the future will be better. Many great books have the concept of hope as the central theme and are very inspirational to read. Rent books with an inspirational theme to brighten your day and believe that everything will turn out for the best.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.-- John Perry Barlow
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.--Norman Cousins
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to excite your ideas.--Henry Tor
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.--Sarah Ban Breathnach
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.--Swedish proverb
He that lives in hope danceth without musick.--George Herbert
He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.--Arabian Porverb
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson
Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr.
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 (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine
Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)
Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville
Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon
Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near)
Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.--Samuel Smiles
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.--Oliver Goldsmith (The Captivity)
Hope means believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.--Jim Wallis (Speaking of Faith interview, Nov. 29, 2007
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To be Blest.--Alexander Pope (Essay on Man, Epistle 1, 1.95)
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.--Jim Wallis (The Soul of Politics: a Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change)
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.--Vaclav Havel
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.--Mahatma Gandhi
I know for certain that miracles happen, but only for those who hang on to hope.--Nick Vujicic (Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life)
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.--Oscar Hammerstein
I learned over the months that to evoke a place where hope might arise, I had to give up any idea of service and to offer instead my willingness to be deeply, authentically present, much the way that a mother does with her infant.-~Judith Leipzig
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.--Anne Frank
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.--St. Clement of Alexandria
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn ... to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God--this is the challenge and the way.--Abraham Joshua Heschel (A Passion for Truth)
In the depths of winter, I finally learnt in me there was an invincible summer.--Albert Camus
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.--Bernie S. Siegel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity... --Vaclav Havel
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.--Ursula LeGuin
It is learning, individually and collectively, which makes us strong, gives us hope, and carries us forward.--Barbara Viniar
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.--Eric Hoffer (The Ordeal of Hope)
It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.--Jim Wallis (Speaking of Faith interview, Nov. 29, 2007)
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.--Tom Clancy (Debt of Honor)
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.--John Johnson
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.--Thomas Jefferson
No matter how difficult life can be the most important thing is to live it with hope.--Anonymous
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.--Reinhold Niebuhr
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope people are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.--Charles Sawyer
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.--Christopher Reeve
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.--Zig Ziglar (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine- January 13, 2004)
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues--faith and hope.--Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.--Albert Shanker (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes you need to hang on to someone else's hope, someone else's peace and sanity while yours is under siege. Do it. Courage, hope, faith, sanity, peace...they all come and go. Borrow them from someone else's supply until your own comes back in.--Linda Mundy
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.--Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.--Thomas Hardy
There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.--Windred Newman
There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.--Miriam Makeba
There is no medicine like hope, no incentives so great, and no tonics so powerful as the expectation of something better tomorrow.--Orison Swett Marden
...to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates…--Percy Bysshe Shelley (Prometheus Unbound)
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.--Pauline R. Kezer
Whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.--William Wordsworth (The Prelude)

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