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Hope
Optimism and faith that things can be better.
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“A pessimist is one who sees a disaster in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every disaster”
“Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you”
“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”
“Don't give up. Don't ever give up.”
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines”
“Education is the passport to the future”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning”
“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it”
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can”
“God bless us, every one!”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”
“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 do not believe in God, because I believe in man”
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space”
“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”
“In the woods, we return to reason and faith”
“Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us”
“Make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all”
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door”
“Now is the winter of our discontent”
“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”
“Patience, and shuffle the cards”
“The ceiling is the roof”
“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”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”
“They can because they think they can”
“They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies”
“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 cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds”
“Yes we can”
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up”
“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”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form”
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run”
“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that”
“It ain't over till it's over”
“It matters if you don't just give up”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm”
“Once you choose hope, anything is possible”
“Religion is the opiate of the masses”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us”
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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.
“And the Sea Will Grant Each Man New Hope, As Sleep Brings Dreams of Home”
ReallyLarry Ferguson · not Christopher Columbus
“We Can Complain Because Rose Bushes Have Thorns, or Rejoice Because Thorn Bushes Have Roses”
ReallyAlphonse Karr · not Abraham Lincoln
“If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space”
ReallyThomas Carlyle · not Carl Sagan
“If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known”
ReallyThomas J. Yates · not Leo Tolstoy
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow”
ReallyUnknown (anonymous American saying) · not Helen Keller
“We are all broken. That's how the light gets in”
ReallyUnknown · not Rumi
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
ReallyHenry Stanley Haskins · not Henry David Thoreau
“There are hopes the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description”
ReallyEllen Pickering · not Charles Dickens
“Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all — as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens”
ReallyCharles Reade · not Charles Dickens
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”
ReallyYoko Ono · not John Lennon
“Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end”
ReallyFernando Sabino · not John Lennon
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits”
ReallyUnknown · not Thomas Edison
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
ReallyRainer Maria Rilke · but not in these words
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”
ReallyJoseph Campbell · but not in these words
“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how”
ReallyFriedrich Nietzsche · not Viktor Frankl
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well”
ReallyUnknown · not Hippocrates
“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today”
Unknown — falsely credited to Will Rogers
“Beauty is the promise of happiness”
ReallyStendhal · not Edmund Burke