Hope Quotes

George eliot, middlemarch - what we call our despair is often only the...
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
La Rochefoucauld
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar - That is, a person who continues to learn and inquire - Can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.
V. P. Skippe
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
Ingmar Bergman
Arthur c. clarke - there is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags...
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
I? m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, February 13, 2004
Stendhal - a very small degree of hope is sufficient to...
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.
Pierre Corneille
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
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
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
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
Stephen Jay Gould
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
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self - Criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
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
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
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Titus Maccius Plautus
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Aldous Huxley
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio
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
He has no hope who never had a fear.
William Cowpe
Never lose hope.
Unknown, Polish Slogan
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table - Land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next.
Johathan Edwards
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes.
Christian Cardell Corbet
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
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
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
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002