Hope Quotes

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

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

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

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

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

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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).

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

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

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Samuel Johnson

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

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

Wendell Berry

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

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

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

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

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

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible

Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.

Swedish Prove

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Hope is the nurse of misery.

American Prove

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".

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

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

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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield