Hope Quotes

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation

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 because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot, internet

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.

Eleanor H. Porte

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

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

V. P. Skippe

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Wilfred Wilson Gibson

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

Albert Camus

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; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

Clare Boothe Luce

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

Martin Luthe

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

John Perry

Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.

Unknown

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

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

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

H. Jackson Jr. Brown

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Stendhal

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Weisel

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

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

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

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

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

I? m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2004

You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Joe Moore

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

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann