Hope Quotes

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)

Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

Dio Lewis

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

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

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

Samuel Smiles

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.

Laertius Diogenes

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Bertrand Russell

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Poet Louise Bogan

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

Lawrence K. Frank

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

Sir Winston Churchill

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napolean Bonaparte

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

Wendell Berry

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Thomas Edison

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Johnson

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980