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Everything that is done in this
world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

   

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of the human become
in its long journey toward the stars?

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

      

Hope is a vigorous principle. . . it sets the head and heart to work,
and animates a person to do his or her utmost.

Jeremy Collier


Without hope people are only half alive.
With hope they dream and think and work.

Charles Sawyer

  

When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation.
Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and
be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.

Barbara Johnson

   
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning
is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary
or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day
that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that
it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Monica Baldwin
  

"Hope" is the thing with feathers--
That perches in the soul--
And sings the tunes without the words--
And never stops--at all.

Emily Dickinson

  
  
  

The longest day must have its close--the gloomiest night will wear on
to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is
ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night,
and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is characteristic
of all living beings. Birds, beasts, and people are always alert and striving
for the fulfillment of their hungers. They are impelled forward in a ceaseless
quest for satisfaction. The antennae of insects relentlessly explore
and feel their way ahead, and the imagination of humans functions
in the same manner, ranging through wide areas and far futures
in search of the good which hope ever promises.

Edward S. Ames
  

Hope is wanting something so eagerly
that--in spite of all the evidence that
you're not going to get it--you
go right on wanting it.

Norman Vincent Peale
  

All human wisdom is summed up
in two words--wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

   

What oxygen is to the lungs,
such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunner

  

There is nothing so well known as that we should not
expect something for nothing--but we all do and we call it Hope.

Edgar Watson Howe
  

  

There is a law in life: When one door
closes to us another one opens.

Andre Gide

We stand in life at midnight; we are always
at the threshold of a new dawn.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because
we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

Phillips Brooks
  

Humans are, properly speaking, based upon hope,
we have no other possession but hope;
this world of ours is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle
   
  
The natural flights of the human mind are not
from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson
  

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear;
rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God,
whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper.
He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand,
and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you
cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward
to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you
from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

St. Francis of Sales
  

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The well-known maxim, "While there is life there is hope," has a deeper meaning in reverse:  "While there is hope there is life."
   Hope comes first, life follows.  Hope gives power to life.  Hope rouses life to continue, to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on.
   Hope sees a light where there isn't any.
   Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts.
   Hope is the miracle medicine of the mind.  It inspires the will to live.  Hope is the physician's strongest ally.
   Hope is our shield and buckler against defeat.
   "Hope," wrote Alexander Pope, "springs eternal in the human breast."  And as long as it does we will triumph and move forward.
   Hope never sounds retreat.  Hope keeps the banners flying.
   Hope revives ideals, renews dreams, revitalizes visions.
   Hope scales the peak, wrestles with the impossible, achieves the highest aim.
   "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope."  As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

Wilferd A. Peterson
  

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Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road,
but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lin Yutang
  
  

Never give out while there is hope; but
hope not beyond reason, for that shows
more desire than judgment.

William Penn

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical.
We are human beings, and we have faith,
and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Cousteau
  
 

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well
but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

 
Honor begets honor,
trust begets trust,
faith begets faith,
and hope is the mainspring of life.

Henry L. Stimson

   
 

Give humanity hope and it will dare
and suffer joyfully, not counting
the cost -- hope with laughter
on her banner and on her face
the fresh beauty of morning.

John Elof Boodin 

   
 

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great,
no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

  

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Take from people their wealth, and you hinder them;
take from them their purpose, and you slow them down.
But take from them their hope, and you stop them.
They can go on without wealth, and even without purpose,
for awhile.  But they will not go on without hope.

C. Neil Strait

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