Hope Quotes

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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
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.
Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - Cynical, but hopeful.
Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave - - - Oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
Thomas Campbell
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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
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
Julius Frontinus, 1st century A. D.
Never lose hope.
Unknown, Polish Slogan
Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert Francis Kennedy
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon William Allport
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.
Pierre Corneille
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
John Perry Barlow
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
William Shakespeare
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.
James E. Faust
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Emily Dickinson
The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.
S. S. Biddle
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
Duke of Wellington
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Lady Nancy Asto
Hope is necessary in every condition.
Samuel Johnson
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
John Greenleaf Whittie
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunne
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington