Hope Quotes

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Thomas Fulle

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

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)

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

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

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

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.

Roland Stahle

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - - Faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Thomas Edison

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luthe

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Exiles feed on hope.

Aeschylus

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Poet Louise Bogan

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

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

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.

Dio Lewis

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin, http: //www. pbs. org/now/society/coffin. html

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Antonio Porchia