939 private quotes tagged hope

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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”— Epicurus
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“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.”— John Lennon
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“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”— George Eliot
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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”— Albert Einstein
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“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”— Michelangelo
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“I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.”— Dalai Lama
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“The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”— Samuel Johnson
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“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.”— John Lennon
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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Hope is the dream of a waking man.”— Aristotle
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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”— Thomas Aquinas
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“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”— Josh Billings
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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.”— Friedrich Schiller
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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”— Ayn Rand
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“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”— Leonardo da Vinci