Hope Quotes

Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Earl Nightingale

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

Bruce Barton

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Thomas H. Huxley

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucke

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Weisel

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

Dio Lewis

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

Albert Einstein

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

Leon Tec, M. D.

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

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

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)

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

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Rose Elizabeth Bird

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunne

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

Woodrow Wilson

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Poet Louise Bogan

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

James E. Faust

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

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

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003

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