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
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.Bob Hope
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.Dean Koontz
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.Thomas Edison
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
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
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.Thomas Fulle
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.Joe Moore
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.V? clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.Thomas H. Huxley
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.Edward Kennedy
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.Arab Prove
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
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
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
Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.Unknown
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.Oliver Wendell Holmes
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.Duke of Wellington
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.Helen Kelle
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
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
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
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!J. R. R. Tolkien
