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  • Leonardo da Vinci on hope

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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

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  • John Quincy Adams on hope

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    “Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” -John Quincy Adams

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  • Robert E. Lee on hope

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    “I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.” -Robert E. Lee

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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer on hope

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    “The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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  • Thomas Aquinas on hope

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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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  • Thomas Hardy on hope

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    “The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.” -Thomas Hardy

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  • William S. Burroughs on hope

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    “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” -William S. Burroughs

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  • Woodrow Wilson on hope

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    “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” -Woodrow Wilson

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  • Lance Armstrong on hope

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    “If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.” -Lance Armstrong

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  • Ernest Hemingway on hope

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    “I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.” -Ernest Hemingway

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  • Ayn Rand on hope

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    “When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.” -Ayn Rand

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  • Steve Jobs on hope

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    “I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.” -Steve Jobs

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  • Brad Henry on hope

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    “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry

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  • Demetri Martin on hope

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    “My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’” -Demetri…

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  • T. S. Eliot on hope

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    “For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.” -T. S. Eliot

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  • Edward de Bono on hope

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    “Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” -Edward de Bono

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  • Albert Camus on hope

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    “He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” -Albert Camus

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  • Jane Austen on hope

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    “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” -Jane Austen

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  • Rupert Murdoch on hope

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    “In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.” -Rupert Murdoch

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  • David D. Burns on hope

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    “Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.” -David D. Burns

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  • Nelson Mandela on hope

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    “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” -Nelson Mandela

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  • Bradley Whitford on hope

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    “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen……

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  • Walt Disney on hope

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    “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” -Walt Disney

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  • Edgar Allan Poe on hope

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    “The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.” -Edgar Allan Poe

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  • Bill Cosby on hope

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    “Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.” -Bill Cosby

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