Hope Quotes

George eliot, middlemarch - what we call our despair is often only the...
Dante alighieri, the divine comedy - all hope abandon, ye who enter here!...
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
W. Somerset Maugham
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.
Christian Cardell Corbet
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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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 and where there is sadness, joy.
Unknown
C. neil strait - a man can go on without wealth, and even without...
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas B. Reed
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.
Woody Harrelson
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Sir Francis Bacon
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Never lose hope.
Unknown, Polish Slogan
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Erich Fromm
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis Kennedy
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
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
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
L. J. Suenens
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunne
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter Drucke
Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well.
Office Space
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon William Allport
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Titus Maccius Plautus