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Hope
Optimism and faith that things can be better.
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“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”
“Education is the passport to the future”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords”
“Hope is the dream of a waking man”
“Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
“I'm for whatever gets you through the night”
“Imagine all the people living life in peace”
“In His will is our peace”
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”
“In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail”
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope”
“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
“The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”
“They can because they think they can”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
“Yes we can”
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”
“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form”
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm”
“Once you choose hope, anything is possible”
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Commonly shared about hope — but misattributed
Popular hope lines that get pinned on the wrong name. If you use one, credit it correctly.
“A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not”
ReallyRobert F. Kennedy · not John F. Kennedy
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”
ReallyNo verified author (falsely credited to Walt Disney)
“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist”
ReallyDavid Ben-Gurion · not Audrey Hepburn
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream”
ReallyAileen Miga & Janice Hughes · not Lao Tzu
“Called or uncalled, God will be present”
ReallyAn ancient Delphic oracle, via Erasmus · not Carl Jung
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
ReallyUnknown — a 20th-century German saying · not Martin Luther King Jr.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”
ReallyHerbert Kretzmer
“Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack”
ReallyLouis XVIII of France · not Napoleon Bonaparte
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
ReallyMartin Luther · not Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end”
ReallyFernando Sabino (crediting his father, Domingos Sabino) · not Paulo Coelho
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase”
ReallyMartin Luther King Jr. · not Martin Luther King Jr.
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself”
ReallyDesiderius Erasmus
“God is where you let Him in”
ReallyMenachem Mendel of Kotzk (the Kotzker Rebbe) · not Paulo Coelho
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened”
ReallyAnonymous saying (later pinned on Mark Twain) · not Seneca
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles”
ReallyUnknown (anonymous online author, c. 2007–08) · not Audrey Hepburn
“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it”
ReallyJesse Jackson · not Muhammad Ali
“If you build it, they will come”
ReallyW. P. Kinsella
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
ReallyUnknown / anonymous origin · not Winston Churchill