Hope Quotes

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

Samuel Johnson

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

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

George W. Bush

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

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Erma Bombeck

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

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luthe

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Thomas Fulle

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

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

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Aldous Huxley

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Ayn Rand

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Titus Maccius Plautus

He has no hope who never had a fear.

William Cowpe

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

Lillian Hellman

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

Exiles feed on hope.

Aeschylus

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

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Thomas Edward Bodett

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon