Hope Quotes
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.Martin Luther King Jr.
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.John Perry
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.Robert Louis Stevenson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.Aldous Huxley
He who has never hoped can never despair.George Bernard Shaw
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
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
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
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
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
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.La Rochefoucauld
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
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
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.Arthur C. Clarke
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.Marie Curie
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
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
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
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.Walter Benjamin
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
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.Joe Moore
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.Leon Tec, M. D.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.Emil Brunne
