Hopeful Quotes - Page 12

• Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Preparation

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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• No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Fighting, Opportunity, Difficult Situations

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• Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Valiant, Faculty

  Michel de Montaigne (1934). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne ...”

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• One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

  William F. Lynch

  Creative, Despair, Able

  William F. Lynch (1974). “Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless”

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• Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Hope, Strong

  "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation".

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• The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Light, Climbing

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.401, Aum Publications

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• Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Century, Daring

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• To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sun, Feels

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.400, Aum Publications

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• Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential hopeful, boxed former heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield for charity. It was a horrible moment when Romney bit off Holyfield's other ear.

  David Letterman

  Two, Presidential, Champion

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• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  Fatos Nano

  Bosnia, Forget, Happened

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• And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.

  Geneva Overholser

  Moving, Taken, Media

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• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Country, Proud, Spirit

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• The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eye, Land, People

  Maureen Johnson (2013). “Suite Scarlett”, p.90, Hot Key Books

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• These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go to Africa for the pious purpose of kidnapping negroes, the mother would cry out to her children "run, run, the christians are coming," so when ever you hear "bibles," run for your life, if you do not want your pockets picked, or to be insulted and slandered as I was... and if you hear "hopeful conversions" or the "gospel," don't stop to look behind you.

  Anne Royall

  Christian, Mother, Running

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• I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

  Anne Royall

  Fall, Atheism, Weight

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• Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

  Michael Novak

  Christian, Judaism, Jew

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Museums, People

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn’t ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.

  Paul Hawken

  Running, Night, Sight

  Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

  John Lewis

  Giving Up, Believe, Optimistic

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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• I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

  Thomas Mullen

  Family, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

  Irwin Shaw

  Young

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• The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

  Chris Isaak

  People, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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• On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Soul, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South.

  Arthur Fremantle

  Determination, War, Causes

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