Hope Quotes
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.Robert Francis Kennedy
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.La Rochefoucauld
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
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.W. Somerset Maugham
Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.H. Jackson Jr. Brown
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.Unknown
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980
A leader is a dealer in hope.Napolean Bonaparte
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.Author Unknown
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
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
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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
Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.Real Live Preache
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - - Too often ending in the loss of both.Tryon Edwards
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
He who has never hoped can never despair.George Bernard Shaw
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.Erich Fromm
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.Norman Cousins
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.Poet Louise Bogan
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.C. Neil Strait
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.Peter Drucke
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.Quida
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
