HOPE QUOTES IX

quotations about hope


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Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

EMIL CIORAN
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The Temptation to Exist


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As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

Theology of Hope


Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

JEROME GROOPMAN

The Anatomy of Hope


We have often to be thankful for hopes frustrated.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

High Tide in Tucson


The most absurd and the most rash hopes have sometimes been the cause of extraordinary success.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Nov. 13, 1712

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The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

PATRICK SHADE

Habits of Hope


Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us ... It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination.

SAMUEL SMILES

Self-Help

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

He Can Who Thinks He Can

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Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors, even enervators, of the human race, concretely genuine hope its most dedicated benefactor.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark


Hope and milk sour by standing.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit