Hope Quotes

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

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Sir Francis Bacon

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

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

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

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

John Perry Barlow

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

"Swedish Proverb".

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

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfred Victor Vigny

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

S. S. Biddle

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

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

Thomas Fulle

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04

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

Henry Mille

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

Jose Joaquin de Olmedo

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

Samuel Smiles

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

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy