Hope Quotes
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
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more.Swedish Prove
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.Dwight D Eisenhowe
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.Thomas Jefferson
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.Peter Drucke
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson
Exiles feed on hope.Aeschylus
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
Hope is a waking dream.Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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
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
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.Lillian Hellman
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
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - - Too often ending in the loss of both.Tryon Edwards
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
Hope is the denial of reality.Margaret Weis
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Michelangelo Buonarroti
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.Joseph Conrad
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 promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.La Rochefoucauld
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
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
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
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.Patrick Henry
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
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
