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Some people just love to look on the bright side of life. Click on any hope quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."Source: East of Eden | Author: John Steinbeck
"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller
"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."Source: The Book of Isaiah | Author: The Prophet Isaiah
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell
"As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together."Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Author: Jules Verne
"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."Source: Matthew 11:28 | Speaker: Jesus
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.
"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton
"From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition."Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times."Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Speaker: Albus Dumbledore
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."Source: Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Speaker: Princess Leia Organa
"Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul"Source: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers | Author: Emily Dickinson
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"I believe it is peace for our time."Source: Speech outside 10 Downing Street | Speaker: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
"I get by with a little help from my friends."Source: With a Little Help from My Friends | Speaker: The Beatles
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."Source: The Bell Jar | Author: Sylvia Plath
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If you think Mick Jagger will be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken."Source: Almost Famous | Speaker: Dennis Hope
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J.K. Rowling
"It's the end of the world as we know it"Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.
"Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live."Source: The Trial | Author: Franz Kafka
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington
"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Source: The Gettysburg Address | Author: Abraham Lincoln
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."Source: March from Selma, 1965 | Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace"Source: The Epistle to the Romans | Author: Paul of Tarsus
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."Source: The Old Curiosity Shop | Author: Charles Dickens
"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."Source: Psalm 107:27 | Author: Psalmist
"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner.""Source: Ich bin ein Berliner Speech | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."Source: Lady Windermere's Fan | Author: Oscar Wilde
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."Source: The Mill on the Floss | Author: George Eliot
"We shall never surrender."Source: We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech (June 1940) | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing."Source: Death of a Salesman | Author: Arthur Miller
"You can feel it all over. You can feel it all over, people."Source: Sir Duke | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."Source: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen