Hope Quotes

Edward kennedy - the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope...
Thomas edward bodett - they say a person needs just three things to be...
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
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
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
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 love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
George eliot - there is no despair so absolute as that which...
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
La Rochefoucauld
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
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Quida
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
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
Laertius Diogenes
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
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
Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.
Unknown
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
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
Leon Tec, M. D.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurbe
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Robert Green Ingersoll
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
Poet Louise Bogan
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Bruce Barton
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
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
John Johnson
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.
Patrick Henry
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilde
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
V. P. Skippe
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