Hope Quotes

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.

Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunne

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

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

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

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

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

Emily Dickenson

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Arab Prove

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

Thomas Fulle

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

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

Dwight D Eisenhowe

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

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

Allan K. Chalmers

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Helen Kelle

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

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

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

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

Albert Camus

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport