Hope Quotes

Unknown - never deprive someone of hope - - it may be all...
Thornton - hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not...
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.
Pierre Corneille
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Charles Caleb Colton
George eliot - there is no despair so absolute as that which...
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot, internet
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold Glasgow
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
La Rochefoucauld
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Quida
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
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
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Joe Moore
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
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
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
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Sir Francis Bacon
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
Hope is the denial of reality.
Margaret Weis
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon William Allport
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
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Thomas Fulle
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunne
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
Arab Prove
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Helen Kelle
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
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
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