Hope Quotes

Exiles feed on hope.

Aeschylus

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bernard M. Baruch

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

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

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.

Office Space

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

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Hope is the nurse of misery.

American Prove

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

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

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Arab Prove

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

Joseph Addison

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 know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Poet Louise Bogan

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

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