Hope Quotes

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

J. R. R. Tolkien

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot, internet

I? m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2004

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

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Thomas Jefferson

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.

Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

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

Rita Mae Brown

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

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

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.

Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

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

George W. Bush

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 smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.

Lawrence K. Frank

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe