Top 34 Hope Maya Angelou Quotes
#1. I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.
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#2. If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya Angelou
#3. Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.
Maya Angelou
#4. Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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#5. I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
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#6. Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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#7. Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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#8. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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#9. The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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#11. Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.
Jay Asher
#12. I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
Martin Puryear
#13. When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
Maya Angelou
#14. The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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#15. God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
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#16. Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.
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#17. Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.
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#18. As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.
Kurt Warner
#19. They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.
Maya Angelou
#20. One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
Robert Frost
#23. I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.
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#24. I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
David Lambert
#25. Hope is born again in the faces of children.
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#26. Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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#27. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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#28. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
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#29. My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
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#30. The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.
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#31. I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
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#32. I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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#33. If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.
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#34. Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.
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