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Best Quotes About Hope (Top 100)
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost -
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde -
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde -
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus -
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank -
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan -
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.
Marilyn Monroe -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson -
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett -
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas -
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus -
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle -
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen King -
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift -
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain -
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther -
In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong Kingston -
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.
Maya Angelou -
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia -
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama -
It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.
Gordon B. Hinckley -
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou -
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen -
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
Frank Warren -
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
Amy Tan -
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
David Nicholls -
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
Mary Stewart -
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
Jon Stewart -
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon -
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
Dorothy Parker -
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire Belloc -
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck -
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
Fernando Pessoa -
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln -
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde -
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
JRR Tolkien -
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller -
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn -
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh -
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford -
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence -
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
Sean O'Casey -
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer -
I hope the departue is joyful and I hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo -
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie -
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson -
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
Nicholas Sparks -
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Mark Twain -
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck -
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther -
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian of Norwich -
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri -
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein -
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett -
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
William Arthur Ward -
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein -
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven
Tupac Shakur -
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
Richard Dawkins -
For every single dark night there is a brighter day.
Tupac Shakur -
It seems to me 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.
George Eliot -
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde -
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford -
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver -
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen -
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark Twain -
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde -
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Julia Roberts -
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana -
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller -
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Maya Angelou -
Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West -
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse -
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes -
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton -
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson -
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke -
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
Cornel West -
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg -
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer -
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby -
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus -
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin -
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk -
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington -
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm -
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
Henry Rollins -
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac -
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz
Even More Hope Quotes
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates -
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.
Hesiod -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Epicurus -
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.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder -
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.
William S. Burroughs -
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce -
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders
Bill Hybels -
Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks -
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel -
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
Kenny Chesney -
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.
Ogden Nash -
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda -
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.
Anne Lamott -
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.
Les Claypool -
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein -
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Clark Gable -
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk -
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles -
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...
E. e. cummings -
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.
William McKinley -
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.
Whoopi Goldberg -
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.
Gillian Anderson -
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol -
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.
Charles Caleb Colton -
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.
Elbert Hubbard -
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian -
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!
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal -
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Pauli Murray -
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz -
One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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.
George Eliot -
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat -
Hope is the denial of reality.
Margaret Weis -
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton -
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison -
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.
Corazon Aquino -
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan -
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr -
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.
Benjamin Graham -
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Helen Keller -
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.
Katherine Paterson -
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Zig Ziglar -
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume -
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.
Daniel Burnham -
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos -
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman -
We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.
William Wordsworth -
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller -
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.
Margaret Atwood -
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown -
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
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.
Vaclav Havel -
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder -
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
Elizabeth Taylor -
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill -
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci -
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.
Vaclav Havel -
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek -
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
Sathya Sai Baba -
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Seamus Heaney -
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke -
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.
Florence King -
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid -
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich -
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Harry Nilsson -
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.
Katherine Mansfield -
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti -
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.
Jared Diamond -
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Joyce Grenfell -
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.
Jennifer Love Hewitt -
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve -
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen -
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
Dave Matthews Band -
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.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker -
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood -
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fear;But, grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunner -
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.
Grandma Moses -
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles -
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
Lew Wallace -
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.
John Hurt -
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
Ayn Rand -
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.
Tom Bosley -
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle -
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Andrew Young -
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.
Bing Crosby -
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson -
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
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.
John Calvin -
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.
Ernie Els -
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby -
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.
Corazon Aquino -
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom -
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."
Albert Einstein -
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.
John Singer Sargent -
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.
Richard Cecil -
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.
David Crosby -
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.
Ronald Reagan -
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin -
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
John Milton -
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville -
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder -
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk -
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.
Richard M. Nixon -
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.
Joseph Addison -
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.
B. C. Forbes -
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere -
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.
Lin Yutang -
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake -
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy -
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
Satish Kumar -
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond -
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.
Richard DeVos -
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.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
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.
Aaron Carter -
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley -
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.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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.
Dr. Robert Anthony -
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
Gary Player -
You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
John Lennon -
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon -
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell -
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
John Milton -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster -
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad -
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
Robert Fulghum -
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen -
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt Disney -
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos -
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper -
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul Tillich -
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy -
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
Don Henley -
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.
Pam Brown -
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis -
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.
William Hazlitt -
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
Eric Bentley -
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.
Leo Burnett -
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.
Maurice Chevalier -
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill -
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.
Charles Kingsley -
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
Raymond Williams -
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
Hartley Coleridge -
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.
Allen Boyd -
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce -
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
Alex Haley -
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.
Jim DeMint -
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley -
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards -
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli -
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.
Gabrielle Roy -
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank -
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell -
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson -
Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen -
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida -
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
George Iles -
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson -
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland -
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.
Eldridge Cleaver -
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.
Norman Cousins -
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.
Sergey Brin -
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Pierre Corneille -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Jean Kerr -
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.
Judith Viorst -
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.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck -
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.
Vaclav Havel -
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus -
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean Anouilh -
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville -
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia -
I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.
Johnny Depp -
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
Frances Perkins -
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.
Wallace Shawn -
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge -
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan -
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.
Norman Cousins -
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith -
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.
Tom Hayden -
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.
Axel Munthe -
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.
Patrick Henry -
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
Emil Brunner -
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
A. P. Herbert -
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings -
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis -
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.
Edward de Bono -
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
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.
Rene Descartes -
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.
John Dryden -
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
John Lyly -
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
William Ellery Channing -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
Bernie Siegel -
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
Robert Burns -
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.
Madame de Stael -
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.
Bryan Singer -
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.
Erich Fromm -
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling -
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.
Gelett Burgess -
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller -
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?
Charles L. Allen -
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino -
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle -
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton -
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
Don Marquis -
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson -
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Joe Batten -
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Benjamin Cardozo -
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck -
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
Ogden Nash -
In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.
Charles Revson -
There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande -
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Alexander Pope -
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing -
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.
Anne Heche -
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.
Jean Kerr -
Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
Loretta Lynn -
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose Bierce -
Hope is the parent of Faith.
C. A. Bartol -
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
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr -
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Howard Mumford Jones -
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.
Erich Fromm -
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
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.
George Brett -
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Bob Beauprez -
This budget is like an Enron budget — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out
Senator John Kerry -
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.
Kurt Russell -
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity in important things, diversity in all things, generosity
George Bush -
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott -
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F. Kennedy -
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Elizabeth Bibesco -
... 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.
Anne Perry -
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake -
Hope is a talent like any other.
Storm Jameson -
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.
Alex Haley -
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Wiesel -
Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.
Garson Kanin -
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Oliver Herford -
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.
Henry Norris Russell -
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!
Georgia Douglas Johnson -
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
John Armstrong -
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!
Humbert Wolfe -
The great hope of society is in individual character.
William Ellery Channing -
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.
Ivo Andric -
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
John Thorn -
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Cynthia Ozick -
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
John Fitzgerald Kennedy -
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.
Aaron Boone -
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid -
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander -
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.
Gaston Bachelard -
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Tom Stoppard -
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips -
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.
Steven Deitz -
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
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.
Antonin Artaud -
There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster
Richard Bach -
Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l'espoir que nos raisons.)
Charles de Leusse -
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
Terence -
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson -
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms -
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
Edward Gibbon -
Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
Katherine Paterson -
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser -
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
Booth Tarkington -
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James -
There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
Jan Myrdal -
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
Plutarch -
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb -
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.
Jesse Jackson -
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
Swedish Proverb -
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
Arthur Rimbaud -
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Ben Stein -
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar -
Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson -
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith -
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.
Vartan Gregorian -
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Iccho Itoh -
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.
Clarence Darrow -
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
Don Williams, Jr -
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy -
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning -
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.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold -
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.
Alfred Victor Vigny -
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?
Emma Goldman -
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne -
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin -
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.
Robertson Davies -
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Voltaire -
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. Clement Stone -
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
Gloria Steinem -
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem -
I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
Vijay Singh -
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.
Jean Anouilh -
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry -
Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley -
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Anita Brookner -
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden -
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert -
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
Euripides -
When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost -
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham -
I hope for the best, it's great to be nominated even once in your life
Christina Aguilera -
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future
Charles F. Kettering -
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.
Ronald Reagan -
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Thornton Wilder -
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill -
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
Bern Williams -
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.
Jacques Cousteau -
The atheist has no hope.
James Freeman Clarke -
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary McCarthy -
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Carrie P. Snow -
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
Maya Angelou -
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.
Dean Koontz -
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes -
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.
Eda J. Le Shan -
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
John Milton -
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
Anita Roddick -
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Friedrich von Schiller -
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.
Ogden Nash -
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo -
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
John Armstrong -
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson -
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out
Vaclav Havel -
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian -
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Albert Einstein -
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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.
Debbie Meyer -
These have not the hope to die.
Dante Alighieri -
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.
Charleszetta Waddles