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Hope is the quiet force that keeps us moving forward, even when the path ahead feels uncertain. It shows up in small moments of courage, resilience, and belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The quotes that follow reflect the many ways hope lifts, steadies, and reminds us why we keep going.   ◀ Back
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I burned all our bridges - not knowing that love knows how to swim.
- Laura Chouette
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Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.
- Jerome Groopman
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
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Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.
- Steven Erikson
Fall of Light
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The fear was taking my breath away when God’s spirit gently whispered to me these words: “Just stand up.
- Octavia Yvonne Webb
Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
- Jane Goodall
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I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.
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It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.
- Stevie Smith
Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
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In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.
- Uncle Iroh
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.
- D.H. Lawrence
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
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A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
- Jack Whyte
Uther
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Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.
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Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.
- Napoleon Hill
You Can Work Your Own Miracles
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
- T. D. Jakes
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Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George Iles
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The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!
- Darrell Yarbrough
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That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
- Jesse Ball
The Curfew
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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
- Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.
p.124
- Curtis White
The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
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I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
- Lauren Myracle
Bliss
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Then why did you come here?" Andrew asked. "Because I'm tired," Neil said, trying to sound defeated. It didn't take much effort. "I have nowhere else to go, and I'm too jealous of Kevin to stay away from him. He knows what it's like to hate every day of his life, to wake up afraid every day, but he's got you at his back telling him everything's going to be okay. He has everything, even when he's lost everything, and I'm—" Neil didn't want to say it, but the word was already there, broken and pathetic between them, "—nothing. I'll always have and be nothing.
- Nora Sakavic
The Foxhole Court
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Each day is always breaking out anew
Aspirations swirling round what you do
- Richard L. Ratliff
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I burned all our bridges - not knowing that love knows how to swim.
- Laura Chouette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.
- Jerome Groopman
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.
- Steven Erikson
Fall of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fear was taking my breath away when God’s spirit gently whispered to me these words: “Just stand up.
- Octavia Yvonne Webb
Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
- Jane Goodall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.
- Stevie Smith
Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.
- Uncle Iroh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.
- D.H. Lawrence
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
- Jack Whyte
Uther
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.
- Napoleon Hill
You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
- T. D. Jakes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George Iles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!
- Darrell Yarbrough
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
- Jesse Ball
The Curfew
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
- Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.
p.124
- Curtis White
The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
- Lauren Myracle
Bliss
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then why did you come here?" Andrew asked. "Because I'm tired," Neil said, trying to sound defeated. It didn't take much effort. "I have nowhere else to go, and I'm too jealous of Kevin to stay away from him. He knows what it's like to hate every day of his life, to wake up afraid every day, but he's got you at his back telling him everything's going to be okay. He has everything, even when he's lost everything, and I'm—" Neil didn't want to say it, but the word was already there, broken and pathetic between them, "—nothing. I'll always have and be nothing.
- Nora Sakavic
The Foxhole Court
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each day is always breaking out anew
Aspirations swirling round what you do
- Richard L. Ratliff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I burned all our bridges - not knowing that love knows how to swim.
- Laura Chouette
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.
- Jerome Groopman
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.
- Steven Erikson
Fall of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fear was taking my breath away when God’s spirit gently whispered to me these words: “Just stand up.
- Octavia Yvonne Webb
Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
- Jane Goodall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I too have buried my demons today, without knowing what might remain beneath the face of tomorrow.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the privilege of the rich
To waste the time of the poor
To water with tears in secret
A tree that grows in secret
That bears fruit in secret
That ripened falls to the ground in secret
And manures the parent tree
Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret
The sap rising and the tears falling.
- Stevie Smith
Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.
- Uncle Iroh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.
- D.H. Lawrence
The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.
- Jack Whyte
Uther
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
- Jennifer Elisabeth
Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.
- Napoleon Hill
You Can Work Your Own Miracles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
- T. D. Jakes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George Iles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!
- Darrell Yarbrough
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
- Jesse Ball
The Curfew
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
- Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesn't mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonald's. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. That's a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called "human fundamentals, valuable things," and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.
p.124
- Curtis White
The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
- Lauren Myracle
Bliss
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then why did you come here?" Andrew asked. "Because I'm tired," Neil said, trying to sound defeated. It didn't take much effort. "I have nowhere else to go, and I'm too jealous of Kevin to stay away from him. He knows what it's like to hate every day of his life, to wake up afraid every day, but he's got you at his back telling him everything's going to be okay. He has everything, even when he's lost everything, and I'm—" Neil didn't want to say it, but the word was already there, broken and pathetic between them, "—nothing. I'll always have and be nothing.
- Nora Sakavic
The Foxhole Court
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each day is always breaking out anew
Aspirations swirling round what you do
- Richard L. Ratliff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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86
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