Hope Quotes

Never deprive someone of hope - - It may be all they have.

Unknown

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Never lose hope.

Unknown, Polish Slogan

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ellen Goodman

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

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

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

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

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

Swedish Prove

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

Hodding Carte

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

Jose Joaquin de Olmedo

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 tune without words - - And never stops, at all.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

La Rochefoucauld

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

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 never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

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

A great NOW will be a great WAS A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE.

Sid Cease

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Mille

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

John Anthony Ciardi

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

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

Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny