Hope Quotes
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
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
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
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
He who does not hope to win has already lost.Jose Joaquin de Olmedo
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
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
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
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)
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.Walter Benjamin
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
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)
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.Laertius Diogenes
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
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.Pliny
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
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
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.Thomas Hobbes
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
The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.S. S. Biddle
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Vaclav Havel
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.Alan Simpson
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.Oliver Wendell Holmes
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.Ogden Nash
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is necessary in every condition.Samuel Johnson
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
