Hope Quotes

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

Rita Mae Brown

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

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

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

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

Titus Maccius Plautus

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".

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.

Johathan Edwards

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

Never lose hope.

Unknown, Polish Slogan

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.

Patrick Henry

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

John Perry

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stephenson

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Thornton

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.

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

Quintilian

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

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

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Bruce Barton

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Erma Bombeck

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Erich Fromm

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

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