Hope Quotes

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

Never lose hope.

Unknown, Polish Slogan

Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

Real Live Preache

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

Hodding Carte

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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

Emily Dickinson

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Oprah Winfrey

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Lady Nancy Asto

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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 hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot, internet

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - - Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Unknown

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

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

Thornton

What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore