Hope Quotes

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

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.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

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

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Hope is a song in a weary throat.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Hope is the denial of reality.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

The best way to know God is to love many things.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

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.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Great hopes make great men.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Hope is the parent of Faith.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity in important things, diversity in all things, generosity

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

This budget is like an Enron budget — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

Hope is a talent like any other.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their own lifetime. It is a steep climb to this goal, but one from which we must never relent.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

I always entertain great hopes.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The happy ending is our national belief.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

The atheist has no hope.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

These have not the hope to die.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things — wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

I hope for the best, it's great to be nominated even once in your life