Hope is a talent like any other.

Storm Jameson
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -Henry Ford
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown
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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -William Shakespeare
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I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.

Matt Groening
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved. -Hubert H. Humphrey
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus
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The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15 to 20 footers and hope I can make those.

Tiger Woods
1,550
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1,292

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. -Thomas Hobbes
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Patrick Henry
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell
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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy. -George W. Bush
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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins
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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero
322

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
298
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
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I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering if you would come with me. But then I realized that you're dirty.

Nate Ramer
294

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver
282
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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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.
259

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard
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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead. -Judith Viorst
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