Hope Quotes

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
Alan Simpson
Thomas edward bodett - they say a person needs just three things to be...
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Johnson - where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor....
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
Kenneth Patchen
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without 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
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 pluses.
Katherine Mansfield
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
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
Martin luthe - everything that is done in the world is done by...
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.
S. S. Biddle
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
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)
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Carrie P. Snow
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.
Leo C. Rosten
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
Exiles feed on hope.
Aeschylus
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
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
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Upham