Hope Quotes
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
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.Wendell Berry
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money - - Then make money with money - - Then make lots of money with lots of money.Paul Erdman
He who does not hope to win has already lost.Jose Joaquin de Olmedo
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
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.Orville Wright
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06 - 11 - 04
There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.Clare Boothe Luce
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
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Bible
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.Quida
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - In important things, diversity - In all things, generosity.George Herbert Walker Bush
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 and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.Bruce Barton
He who has never hoped can never despair.George Bernard Shaw
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
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.Erich Fromm
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Vaclev Havel
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.Josh Billings
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.Duke of Wellington
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - Leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
Fear less, hope moreWhine less, breathe moreTalk less, say moreHate less, love moreAnd all good things are yours.Swedish Prove
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.Laertius Diogenes
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow - - You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dreamYet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less goneAll that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.Edgar Allan Poe
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.Albert Einstein
