Hope Quotes
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
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
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
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
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.William Shakespeare
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.Arnold Glasgow
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
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.Helen Kelle
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.John Anthony Ciardi
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
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
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.Thomas Edison
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.Jim Horning
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
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
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.Herbert Rappaport
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
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
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.Benjamin Franklin
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
