Hope Quotes

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

Katherine Paterson

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Thomas Jefferson

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

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunne

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Ayn Rand

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Bruce Barton

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

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

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

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

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

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

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

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

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Author Unknown

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman