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Index_card_top “A life full of enthusiasm, hope and contributions through one's own talent is a life well lived.”
 
Kimberly Day - American Writer And Poet


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Index_card_top “Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.”
 
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894);
Essayist, Poet, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Where hope grows, miracles blossom.”
 
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Index_card_top “He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.”
 
B. C. Forbes (1880-1954);
Financial Journalist; Founded Forbes Magazine


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Index_card_top “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
 
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870);
Writer, Author
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Index_card_top “Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.”
 
Monroe Forester -


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Index_card_top “Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”
 
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993);
Preacher, Author
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Index_card_top “Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the hope that they won't last forever. That hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. That we will be led out of the darkness and into the sunshine.”
 
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Index_card_top “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”
 
Maya Angelou (born 1928);
Poet, Dancer, Producer, Playwright, Director, Author
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Index_card_top “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
 
Storm Jameson (1891-1986);
Author
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Index_card_top “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ”
 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821);
Emporer Of France
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Index_card_top “Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.”
 
Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839-1908);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “The great essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.”
 
Joseph Addison (1672-1719);
English Essayist, Poet, Playwright And Politician.
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Index_card_top “But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”
 
John Perry Barlow (born 1947);
Essayist, Lyricist


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Index_card_top “If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.”
 
Alec Bourne -


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Index_card_top “In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”
 
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973);
Writer, Nobel And Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
 
Albert Camus (1913-1960);
Author And Philosopher
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Index_card_top “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 (1888-1955);
Motivational Author
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Index_card_top “If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.”
 
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997);
Marine Biologist, Diver, Explorer
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Index_card_top “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”
 
Antoine de Sainte-Exupery (1900-1944);
(1900 1944); Aviator, Writer
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Index_card_top “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.”
 
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886);
Poet
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Index_card_top “Hope, deceitful though it be, is at least of this good use to us that while we are traveling through this life, it conducts us by an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680);
Writer, Moralist
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Index_card_top “Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, but only to those who remember to turn on the light.”
 
Albus Dumbledoor - Harry Potter Character


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Index_card_top “One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
 
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
 
Bhagavad Gita (born 500);

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Index_card_top “Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”
 
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774);
Poet, Playwright, Physician


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Index_card_top “Faith, a gift from God, is one of the most powerful forces governing our universe, just as the unseen power of gravity works to pull all things down, the unseen power of faith works to lifts all things up.”
 
Gene Griffin - Producer


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Index_card_top “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
 
Vaclav Havel (born 1936);
Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic
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Index_card_top “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
 
Vaclav Havel (born 1936);
Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic
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Index_card_top “Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.”
 
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784);
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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Index_card_top “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
 
Helen Keller (1880-1968);
Author, Lecturer, Activist
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Index_card_top “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963);
35th Us President
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Index_card_top “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.”
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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Index_card_top “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 (born 1955);
Author, Poet, Essayist
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Index_card_top “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”
 
Anne Lamott - Author, Political Activist
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Index_card_top “The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.”
 
George C. Marshall (1880-1959);
U.S. Army General


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Index_card_top “I have the greatest weapon, I have hope.”
 
Sophia Mendoza - Master Sergeant, Us Army


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Index_card_top “God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.”
 
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Index_card_top “We live by our genius for hope; we survive by our talent for dispensing with it.”
 
V.S. Pritchett (1900-1997);
Writer, Critic


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Index_card_top “Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”
 
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004);
Actor, Producer, Director, And Writer; Best Known For His Role As Superman
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Index_card_top “Liberty requires opportunity to make a living — a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945);
32nd U.S. President
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Index_card_top “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top “There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
 
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924);
Author, Publisher
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Index_card_top “The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.”
 
Sir Henry Taylor (1800-1886);
Author


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Index_card_top “Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.”
 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834);
Poet


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Index_card_top “The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.”
 
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life—purpose—is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.”
 
Dennis Waitley (born 1933);
Writer
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Index_card_top “My Creed I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift. I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up- and laugh- and love- and lift. ”
 
Howard Arnold Walter (1883-1918);
Poet


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Index_card_top “Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
 
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975);
Novelist, Playwright
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Index_card_top “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
 
Seneca (4-65);
Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Wisdom begins in Wonder.”
 
Socrates (469-399);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “Try it one more time.”
 
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Index_card_top “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.”
 
Robert Leighton (1611-1684);
Preacher, Bishop, Academic


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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
 
Vaclav Havel (born 1936);
Poet, Playwright, 1st President Of Czech Republic
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“Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ”
 
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886);
Poet
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“Someday all you’ll have to light the way will be a single ray of hope, and that will be enough.”
 
Kobi Yamada - Author
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/11/11
“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”
 
O. Carl Simonton (1942-2009);
Oncologist


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“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”
 
Mary Anne Radmacher -
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“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time. ”
 
E. B. White (1899-1985);
Author
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