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Quotes about hope and new beginnings

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A new year, a recovery, a bereavement: there are moments when the right sentence helps to look ahead. These quotes about hope have been checked in their original text.

They go well with a message of wishes or support.

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Inspiring

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 2, chapter 44 (Amy), 1869 Verified quote
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If, one day, the people will to live, then fate must answer.

Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, “The Will to Live” (Songs of Life), opening line, 1933 Verified quote
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There are no bad plants and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Volume I, book V, chapter III, 1862 Verified quote
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Isn’t it nice to think that to-morrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXI (Anne to Marilla), 1908 Verified quote
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante (Artemis to Actæon), 1909 Verified quote
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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.

Emily Dickinson, “Hope” is the thing with feathers (Poems: Second Series), first stanza, 1891 Verified quote
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With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Washington, 4 March 1865, 1865 Verified quote
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Act III (Lord Darlington), 1892 Verified quote
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Conclusion, 1854 Verified quote
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 19 (Mrs Dashwood to Edward Ferrars), 1811 Verified quote
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Short

Every cloud has a silver lining.

English proverb
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Frequently asked questions

Which quote should I send to someone going through a hard time?

A short, gentle line, with no injunction. Always add a personal word: the quote opens the door, your word walks in.