Hope Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.

Leon Tec, M. D.

Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

Kenneth Patchen

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

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, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

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

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

John Perry

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - - Too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

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

Johnson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cance

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

Ogden Nash

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

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

Emily Dickenson

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Exiles feed on hope.

Aeschylus

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

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

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

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

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 and where there is sadness, joy.

Unknown

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton