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Quotes About Optimism

False hope is worse than despair.
~ Jonathan Kozol
Hope is a thing with feathers
~ Emily Dickinson
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
~ Pittacus Lore
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
~ Saint Augustine
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
~ Cat Stevens
What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.
~ Linda Ellerbee
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
~ Marshall Ganz
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.
~ Raymond Williams
True faith is ever connected with hope.
~ John Calvin
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
~ Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.
~ George Monbiot
Where there's dope, there's hope!
~ Philip K. Dick
I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope.
~ George Matheson
It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.
~ Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
~ Albert Camus
Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
~ Henry Rollins
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
~ John Lewis
There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.
~ Yisroel Salanter
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
~ Dean Koontz