Hope Quotes - Page 12

• Where peace
  And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
  That comes to all.

  John Milton

  Peace, Doleful, Paradise Lost Book 1

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Teaching, Inspiration

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Freedom, Understanding

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Thinking, Listening

  Twitter post from Mar 1, 2012

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine 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 execute your ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Stars, Work

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• 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

  Hero, Giving, Profound

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Expectations, Hopeful, Desire

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Wrecks, Causes

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Progress, Anticipation

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

  Daniel Handler

  Interesting, Doe, Pieces

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Tree, Lord, Lost

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Commitment, Keeping Promises

  "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

  John Perry Barlow

  Love, Inspirational, Kind

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• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Men, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• In all my wanderings round this world of care,
  In all my griefs-and God has given my share-
  I still had hopes my latest hours to crown,
  Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grief, Humble, Crowns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.42

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• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

  Robert Frost

  Failure, Pride, Looks

  North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man"

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• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Comfort, Captivity, Poverty

  The Rambler No. 67

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• Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Possession

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

  William Walsh

  Expectations, Despair, Endure

  'Song: Of All the Torments'

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• That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Needs

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• Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Suffering, Tears

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  W. C. Fields

  Lost Everything, Comedy, Duty

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• Above all, try something

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• Christianity does not provide the reason for
  each experience of pain,
  but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering
  with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Courage, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.46, Penguin

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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