Hope Quotes
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.Thomas Hobbes
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
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
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.Gertrude Stein
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.Joe Moore
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
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
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
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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.Thomas Fulle
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.Benjamin Franklin
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.Samuel Johnson
Hope is the nurse of misery.American Prove
Never lose hope.Unknown, Polish Slogan
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.Pierre Corneille
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.Mark Twain
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.Peter Drucke
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.Epictetus
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.Office Space
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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


