Hope Quotes

William cowpe - he has no hope who never had a fear....
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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
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
Stendhal - a very small degree of hope is sufficient to...
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
Aeschylus - exiles feed on hope....
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold Glasgow
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
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
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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).
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
Herbert Rappaport
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape
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
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Thomas Fulle
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
It is amazing that our souls - - Our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world - - Are contained within these temporal bodies.
Marion Woodman
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Professor Edsger Dijkstra
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare
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
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
V. P. Skippe
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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
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
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luthe