Hope Quotes

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

Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.

A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

V. P. Skippe

Hope is the nurse of misery.

American Prove

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

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Thomas Fulle

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Weisel

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

V? clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson