Hope Quotes

He that lives in hope danceth
without musick....George Herbert.

Hope is like a road in the country: there was
never a road, but when many people walk on it,
the road comes into existence....Lin Yutang.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope
that if you just show up and try to do the
right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and
watch and work: you don't give up....Anne Lamott.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact
of life. It provides human beings with a sense of
destination and the energy to get started....Norman Cousins.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to
stir men's blood...Make big plans...aim
high in hope and work....Daniel Hudson Burnham.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which
is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there
is no birth in our lifetime....Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love,
is the only kind worth having....John Perry Barlow.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness
is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes,
when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with
hope and faith and love....Saint Adela Rogers Johns.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world.
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not
the same as joy that things are going well, or
willingness to invest in enterprises that are
obviously heading success, but rather an ability to
work for something because it is good....Václav Havel.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends
forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing
each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring, these ripples build a
current that can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance....Robert Francis Kennedy.

Courage is like love; it must have
hope for nourishment....Napoleon I.

Hope...is the companion of power, and the
mother of success; for who so hopes has within
him the gift of miracles....Samuel Smiles.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who
is unhappy is in a better position than a rich
person who is unhappy. Because the poor person
has hope. He thinks money would help....Jean Kerr.

Men and women are limited not by the place
of their birth, not by the color of their skin,
but by the size of their hope....John Johnson.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime;
therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true
or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate
context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;
therefore, we are saved by love....Reinhold Niebuhr.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope
to the meaning of life....Emil Brunner.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel....Charles Caleb Colton.

All human wisdom is summed up in two
words -- wait and hope....Alexandre Dumas.

The human body experiences a powerful 
gravitational pull in the direction of hope. 
That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's
secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any
prescription....Norman Cousins.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on
your soul...and sings the tune without the words,
and never stops at all....Emily Dickinson.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them, water them with your blood
and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you
yourself burst into bloom....Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

A strange thing is memory, and hope;
one looks backward, and the other forward;
one is of today, the other of tomorrow.
Memory is history recorded in our brain,
memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past
and of the day....Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses.

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