“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
Epictetus
“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I dwell in possibility.”
Emily Dickinson
“The darkest hours are just before dawn.”
English Proverb
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
“Where there’s life, there’s hope.”
Theocritus
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
Samuel Johnson
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!”
Charles Dickens
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
Victor Hugo
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Stephen King
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.”
Howard Zinn
“Just as a man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”
Elie Wiesel
“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”
French Proverb
“Hope is a waking dream.”
Aristotle
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