Hope Quotes

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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 money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
Unknown, polish slogan - never lose hope....
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
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Thomas Fulle
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Johnson
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - - Too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Bible
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
I? m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2004
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
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
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
Arab Prove
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
Gertrude Stein
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
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.
Macduff
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Thomas Edison
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.
Unknown
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.
Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
L. J. Suenens
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
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