Hope Quotes
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.Duke of Wellington
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.Poet Louise Bogan
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
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.Quida
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.Thomas Hobbes
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.Martin Luthe
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - In important things, diversity - In all things, generosity.George Herbert Walker Bush
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
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
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
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.George Santayana
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
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.Leo C. Rosten
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.Thomas Hardy
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
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
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
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
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
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
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.Tom Bodett
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.Johnson
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.L. J. Suenens
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
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson