Hope Quotes
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 that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
Hope is a waking dream.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.Charles Horton Cooley
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
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.V? clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
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)
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.Johnson
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.Benjamin Franklin
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
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
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.Elie Wiesel
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.Percy B. Shelley
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
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.Thomas Arnold
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
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
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
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.Thomas B. Reed
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.Robert Louis Stevenson
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.Thomas Jefferson
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - The frontier of the 1960s - A frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - A frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean