Hope Quotes

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

Hodding Carte

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

He has no hope who never had a fear.

William Cowpe

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

Joseph Addison

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

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luthe

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Thomas Jefferson

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

James Thurbe

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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.

Thomas Edward Bodett

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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoove

A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

V. P. Skippe

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Robert Green Ingersoll