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Quotes About Hope

We usually get what we anticipate.
~ Claude M. Bristol
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
~ Paul Tsongas
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
~ Eric Hoffer
From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.
~ Hans Rosling
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.
~ Pope John Paul II
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience
~ Dave Brubeck
Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.
~ Robert Fritz
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
~ George Eliot, Silas Marner
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.
~ Orson F. Whitney
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.
~ Terri Windling
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
~ Theodore Parker
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
~ Sholem Asch
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.
~ Don Piper
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.
~ Shel Silverstein
Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
~ Moon Unit Zappa
Based on past experience, I hope not.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.
~ Jill Stein
I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
~ Katherine Center