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Quotes About Hope

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
~ Aeschylus
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
~ Maya Angelou
Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
~ John F. Kennedy
I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.
~ Leroy Chiao
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
~ Ted Kulongoski
Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.
~ E. M. Forster
Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.
~ Ella Reeve Bloor
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
~ Hermann Broch
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
~ Robert Higgs
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.
~ Jerome Groopman
Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
~ John Lyly
Hope costs nothing.
~ Colette
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
~ Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
~ Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
~ Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
~ Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
~ D. Morgenstern
Grass grows at last above all graves.
~ Julia Dorr