Hope Quotes
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.Samuel Johnson
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
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
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.Thomas Arnold
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.John Johnson
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.Orville Wright
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.Poet Louise Bogan
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
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.La Rochefoucauld
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
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.Margaret Hilda Thatche
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
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
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
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.Peter Drucke
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Vaclev Havel
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
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the nurse of misery.American Prove
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
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.Tom Bodett
He has no hope who never had a fear.William Cowpe
