Hopeful Quotes - Page 5

• There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

  Bob Goff

  Concerned

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Mar 10, 2014

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• I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

  John Lewis

  Optimistic, Thinking, Trying

  "'I Felt That We Had to Be Tough': John Lewis Remembers the March on Washington". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 26, 2013.

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• The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

  Ted Alexandro

  Essence, Mourning, Helping

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

  Marianne Williamson

  Events, Looks, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Adversity, Two, Sovereign

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• You are young, and I am older;
  You are hopeful, I am not-
  Enjoy life, ere it grow colder-
  Pluck the roses ere they rot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rose, Enjoy Life, Pluck

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.684, Library of America

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• In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

  John Lewis

  Optimistic, Issues, May

  "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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• Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

  James Keller

  Doors, Despair

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• Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hope, Healing, Cures

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• Hopeful men do not die so easily.

  Alexander Dolgun

  Hope, Men, Dies

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• By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

  Jack Youngblood

  Time, Thinking, Balls

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• Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Missions, Our Lives

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• Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

  Katherine Paterson

  Inspirational, Feelings

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Believe, Paris

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• I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

  Leni Zumas

  People, World, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Mean, Men

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• Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Essentials, Human Life, Humans

  France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal, Benjamin Franklin (1837). “Animal Magnetism”, p.42

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• I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

  Sean Connery

  Distance, Believe, Scotland

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• What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

  Brad Henry

  Family Love, Compassion, Promise

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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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• 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 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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• I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Coincidence, Falcon

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hope, Wisdom, Fear

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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