Hope Quotes
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.Unknown
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.Benjamin Franklin
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.Anon.
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
A leader is a dealer in hope.Napolean Bonaparte
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
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
Hope is the denial of reality.Margaret Weis
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.Johnson
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.James Thurbe
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
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.Duke of Wellington
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.Titus Maccius Plautus
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
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Emily Dickinson
Exiles feed on hope.Aeschylus
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.John Perry Barlow
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.V. P. Skippe
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.C. Neil Strait
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.William S. Gilbert
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
He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.Arab Prove
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.Martin Luther King Jr.
