Hope Quotes

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

Thornton

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)

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

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

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 to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith

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

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Quida