Hopeful Quotes - Page 13

• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  Andrew Aydin

  Struggle, Optimistic, Years

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end.

  Keri Russell

  Uplifting, Waitress, Ends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doors, Would Be, Imagine

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.27, Penguin

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• I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

  Julie Gold

  Cancer, Littles, Dip

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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• We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Earth Day, Tasks, Want

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• Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

  Mary Livermore

  Philanthropy, Characteristics, Our Time

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• Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

  Stanley Donwood

  Growing Up, Sarcasm, Sky

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Soul, Trying

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• A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

  Paul Celan

  Reality, Land, Bottles

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• I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

  Studs Terkel

  Optimist

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Connections

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• My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

  Deana Carter

  Optimistic, Writing, Marketing

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• In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Hope, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.36

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• Hope is a talent like any other.

  Storm Jameson

  Hope, Talent

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.364, A&C Black

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• Hope is a risk that must be run.

  Georges Bernanos

  Inspirational, Running, Hope

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Law, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Real, Giving, Perspective

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• See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and hopeful.

  Doreen Virtue

  Beautiful, Eye, Angel

  Doreen Virtue (2007). “Healing Words from the Angels”, p.143, Hay House, Inc

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• At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.

  Fritjof Capra

  Attitude, Reading, Book

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• The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  Joseph Batten

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

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• Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

  Nick Hornby

  Way, Sentimental, Feels

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.

  Christina Perri

  Strong, Real, Simple

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• People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.80, Random House

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