Hope Quotes
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.Dean Koontz
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
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.William Shakespeare
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.Robert H. Goddard
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.Alfred Lord Tennyson
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.Ayn Rand
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.Walter Benjamin
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.La Rochefoucauld
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
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.Liz Smith
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.Dante Alighieri
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.Franklin P. Jones
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".
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
We must always have old memories and young hopes.Arsene Houssaye
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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 pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.Pliny
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.Robert Louis Stephenson
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.Pope John XXIII
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7
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
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.Thomas Jefferson
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.Gore Vidal
