Great Hope Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• He who has never hoped can never despair

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Hope, Expectations

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

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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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• The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Hope, Teaching

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• On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

  Anthony Loyd

  Depression, Desire, Despair

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, Women

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

  Jane Austen

  Cities, Sound, Birmingham

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 36 (Mrs Elton)

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• One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Lying, Our World, People

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• Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Humor, Two, Culture

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Hope, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

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• The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

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• We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope here for those who are sincere in finding out who and what they are, becoming a Co-worker with God, and realising the Kingdom of Heaven while still living in the body. The key lies within you.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Lying, Keys

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• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  Johnny Depp

  Country, Freedom, Grateful

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• It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long, Path, Crosses

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

  Paul Farmer

  Order, Lasts, Facts

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• Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Desire, Literature, Longing

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• To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

  Paul Ryan

  Disappointment, Illinois, Years

  "Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy, and the Politics of Division". Speech at The Heritage Foundation, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), www.heritage.org. November 15, 2011.

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• I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Doe, World

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• Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

  Norman Mailer

  Real, May, Way

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• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Would Be, Canada, Realizing

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• Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Opposites, Upset

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• It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Respect, Decision, Someday

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.90, Random House

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• I always entertain great hopes.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Hope, Business

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

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