Hope Quotes
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
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.Sir Francis Bacon
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Vaclev Havel
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.Leon Tec, M. D.
He has no hope who never had a fear.William Cowpe
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.Dean Koontz
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Emily Dickinson
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
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
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.Thomas Hobbes
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - In important things, diversity - In all things, generosity.George Herbert Walker Bush
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.John F. Kennedy
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.Henry Mille
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - The frontier of the 1960s - A frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - A frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
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
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.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
