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Quotes About Optimism

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
~ Jane Austen
While we breathe, we will hope.
~ Barack Obama
I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.
~ Van Jones
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
~ Cornel West
HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.
~ Nathan Lane
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
~ John Milton
Where there is hope, there is no despair.
~ Gene Tierney
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
~ Luc de Clapiers
To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.
~ Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.
~ Christopher Moore
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
~ David Hyde Pierce
Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
~ Jane Austen
Hope hurt more than the cold.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.
~ Audrey Hepburn
I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.
~ Max Lucado
Hope is the poor man's bread.
~ George Herbert
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
~ John Milton
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.
~ Jerome Groopman
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
~ Tom Shadyac