Hope Quotes

Sir francis bacon - hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper....
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Weisel
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
La Rochefoucauld
Ralph waldo emerson - the truth, the hope of any time, must always be...
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
Vartan gregorian - it meant that new york philanthropists, new york...
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
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
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
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
Adel Bestavros
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.
Swedish Prove
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
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
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
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford
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
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
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
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Peter Drucke
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Johnson
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Anon.
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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
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
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
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
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes