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Quotes About Hope

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We want more than there is.
~ Jonathan Goldstein
Hope is merely another face of desire.
~ Christopher Moore
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
~ Florence Nightingale
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.
~ Matthew Henry
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
~ Wallace Stevens
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
~ Hannah More
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
~ Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
~ George MacDonald
Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.
~ John Avery
We ought not to desire the impossible.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
expectation isn't the same as desire
~ Margaret Atwood
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.
~ Marie Corelli
Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.
~ Mason Cooley
Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.
~ Mason Cooley
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
~ William Rounseville Alger
God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.
~ Jim George
...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
~ Martha N. Beck
A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Don't let your past determine your destiny.
~ Confucius
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
~ Robert Clive
Whatever your trials, remind yourself that you are a spirit and are capable of changing your destiny.
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov