Words Of Hope Quotes

• I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

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  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Victory   Words Of Hope   Spoken Word  

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.489, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational   Life   Wise  

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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  Helen Keller

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

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  James Bryan Smith

  Religious   Healing   Virtue  

  James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

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  Luciano Pavarotti

  Teacher   Encouragement   Artist  

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• Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

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  Pope Francis

  Humanity   Needs   Gestures  

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

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  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness   New Year   Hope  

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Love   Inspirational   Life  

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.

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  Miriam Toews

  Wall   Powerful   Blood  

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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  Victor Hugo

  Hope   Wisdom   Men  

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!

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  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Beautiful   Teacher   Writing  

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• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Sea   Land   Bird  

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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