Hope Quotes
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.Robert Green Ingersoll
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.Katherine Mansfield
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh leave the light of Hope behind.Thomas Campbell
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
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
Hope is a waking dream.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
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
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
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.
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
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.Nathan M. Pusey
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
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
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.Lady Nancy Asto
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.Joe Moore
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
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
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.Pierre Corneille
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.Bob Hope
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.George Washington
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
