Hope Quotes

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.

Swedish Prove

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

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

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

He has no hope who never had a fear.

William Cowpe

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Dean Koontz

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

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

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Erich Fromm

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

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is the nurse of misery.

American Prove

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cance

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

Martin Luthe

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Thomas Fulle

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Jr. Brown

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh