939 private quotes tagged hope

“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” — Anwar Sadat

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“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.” — Epictetus

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“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.” — William Hazlitt

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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.” — David D. Burns

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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

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“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.” — Yves Saint Laurent

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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” — Anne Lamott

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“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” — Vaclav Havel

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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.” — Richard M. DeVos

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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” — Stephen King

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“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.” — Charles Barkley

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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” — E. M. Forster

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“Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.” — Stephen King

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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” — Desmond Tutu

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“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.” — Janis Ian

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“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.” — Jim Henson

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“I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.” — James Herriot

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“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.” — Sharron Angle

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