Hope Quotes
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11: 1, The Bible (King James Version)
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
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.John Greenleaf Whittie
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....Ursala Lequin
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.Erich Fromm
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.Unknown
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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
Courage changes things for the better... With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.Earl Nightingale
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.William Shakespeare
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.Joe Moore
Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
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
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
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."Swedish Proverb".
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.Bob Hope
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
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!J. R. R. Tolkien
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles
A leader is a dealer in hope.Napolean Bonaparte
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
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.Bernard M. Baruch
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 know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.Richard M. DeVos
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.Robert Green Ingersoll
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.Epictetus
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.Alfred Victor Vigny
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe