Hope Quotes

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

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

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

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

Thornton

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Alan Simpson

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

He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Thomas Arnold

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

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

Emil Brunne

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

Gordon William Allport

Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

Sanskrit Prove

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Thomas Fulle

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

Albert Camus

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - The frontier of the 1960s - A frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - A frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

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

The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.

Laertius Diogenes

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

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

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

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

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Thomas Edward Bodett

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).

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

Charles Caleb Colton