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Quotes About Hope
Hope does not require pretending that circumstances are easy. At its strongest, it keeps open the possibility of repair, change and a next chapter without denying the present.
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“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”
— William White
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
— Albert Einstein
“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“Some pursue happiness, others create it.”
— Unknown
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
— William Shakespeare
“To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.”
— Ian Botham
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
— Richard Bach
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
— Jim Rohn
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
— J.K. Rowling
“All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”
— Anne Brontë
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
— Friedrich von Schiller
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— Neil Gaiman
“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”
— John F. Kennedy
“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
— Michael Korda
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.”
— Margaret Bonnano
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
— Richard Bach
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.”
— Billy Wilder
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
— Laozi
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”
— Henry Miller
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- Emily Dickinson American poet
- Oscar Wilde Irish playwright, poet and novelist
- Maya Angelou Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
- Martin Luther King Jr. American minister and civil rights leader
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