Hope Quotes - Page 23

• Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Ambition, Desire

  URSULA K. LE GUIN (1976). “THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS”

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• No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

  John Ruskin

  Temptation, Determined, Honestly

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Children, Years, Bored

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Giving, Timing

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• It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

  John Guare

  Yesterday, Littles, Tomorrow

  John Guare (1978). “Landscape of the Body”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Adventure, Hopeful

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• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Pessimist, Ends

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• It is history that teaches us to hope.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Hopeful, Teach

  Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Failure

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• Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Believe, Men

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• Someone has said it is better to appreciate the things you don't own than to own things you don't appreciate. I hope we will have with us a spirit of appreciation for all of the good things we enjoy, all the blessings that we have, many of which have come so easy to us, with very little effort on our part, and yet they are very real and very choice and are truly rich blessings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Appreciation, Real, Blessing

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Fashion, Children

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• When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Humble, Thinking

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D".

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• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Running, Writing

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.28, Ivy Books

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• In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Wall, Balls

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• ...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have differnt stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Moving

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• The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

  Diogenes

  Dream, Men, Answers

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• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

  Anita Brookner

  Energy, Moments, Circumstances

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• Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Fear, Way

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• The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Truth, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.174

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• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Life, Giving, Our Words

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• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

  David Matthews

  Dark, Night, Shadow

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• I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fear, Inscriptions, Tombs

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• Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Faith, Christian, Honor

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