Hope
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- Everyone desires warmth and hope. When you paint a bright future for people, they feel the warmth. And they feel the optimism that comes from the “light” you provide. A prime function of every leader is to keep hope alive.
- Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
- Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.
- For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.
- God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
- God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us – in the dreariest and most dreaded moments – can see a possibility of hope.
- Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
- Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
- 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.
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.Francis BaconSourced
- Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.
- Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
- Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
- Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
- Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Václav HavelSourced
- Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel JohnsonSourced
- Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!Daisaku IkedaCommonly attributed
- 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.Lu XunSourced
- Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today.
- Hope is the best part of our riches.
- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.William HazlittSourced
- Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.Mignon McLaughlinSourced
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
- Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.Jane GoodallSourced
- Hope, like the stars of evening, shines the sweetest and the brightest when life seems the gloomiest and darkest.
- Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blestAlexander PopeSourced
- Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action.
- Hope was the only sensible response to the reality that the future was unwritten. And everyone had a hand in writing it.