Hope Quotes

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

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

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

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

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Johnson

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Jr. Brown

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

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

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

J. R. R. Tolkien

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope is the nurse of misery.

American Prove

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

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

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

C. Neil Strait

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson