Hope Quotes
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.Thornton Wilde
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.Erich Fromm
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.Samuel Johnson
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the 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
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
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
Hope is the denial of reality.Margaret Weis
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Helen Kelle
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
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
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
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.George Eliot
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.Christian Cardell Corbet
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.Poet Louise Bogan
Hope is necessary in every condition.Samuel Johnson
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.Thomas B. Reed
A great NOW will be a great WAS A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE.Sid Cease
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.Gertrude Stein
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.
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 arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.V? clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.Erich Fromm
