This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Monday, December 29, 2008

Hope Quotes

1. Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

2. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandria

3. I have watched the flight of a butterfly against the gale and the performance gives me hope. - Norris W. Alfred

4. It is necessary to hope...for hope itself is happiness. - Samuel Johnson

5. Hope is a risk that must be run. - Georges Bernanos

6. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to the meaning of life. - Emil Brunner

7. 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

8. Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success, for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

9. Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. - John Armstrong

10. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John F. Kennedy

11. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - O.S. Marden

12. Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang

13. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. - Charles Caleb Colton

14. The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again. - Ram Charan

15. If you can still read this, you still have a chance! - Ronny M. Cole

16. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. - Charles Sawyer

17. For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. - Saint Basil

18. Hope is a powerful gift, because it allows us to look beyond what is currently going on – maybe struggle or pain and see a future that is full of possibilities. Joy. Wonder. Adventure. That is what makes our days so special and our lives so meaningful. So, hold on to hope. It paves the way for brighter days. – Topher Kearby

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