Hope Quotes

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George dennison prentice - memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is...
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare
Samuel smiles - hope... is the companion of power, and the mother...
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.
Johathan Edwards
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
Albert Camus
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
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
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
We must always have old memories and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
Exiles feed on hope.
Aeschylus
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
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
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclev Havel
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.
1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
Laertius Diogenes
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
John Perry
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
Sextus Julius Frontinus
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
Horace
He that lives on hope will die fasting.
American Prove
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