hope

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. 9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. 12 wisdom & wit from William Cowper

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 74 more quotes from Winston Churchill

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. 52 other quotes from George Eliot

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. 32 views from Martin Luther

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. 18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. 2 sayings from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. 52 more quotes from Albert Camus

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. 21 more thoughts from Dale Carnegie

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. 4 wisdom & wit from Antonio Porchia

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. 25 more thoughts from Will Durant

To live without Hope is to Cease to live. 10 wisdom & wit from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. 9 more sayings from Charles M. Schulz

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. 3 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Banneker

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. 4 quotes from Antonio Porchia

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. 8 wisdom & wit from William Shenstone

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. 8 views from Oliver Goldsmith

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. 3 quotes from Virgil Thomson

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. 10 thoughts from Robert Mapplethorpe

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. 14 other wisdom & wit from Hedy Lamarr

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more. 14 other quotes from Hedy Lamarr

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. 18 sayings from Baruch Spinoza

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it. 10 quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. 29 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. 7 more quotes from Samuel Smiles

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. 26 other sayings from Emily Dickinson

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. 23 other quotes from Walt Disney

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. 23 more wisdom & wit from Walt Disney

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. 58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. 21 quotes from Jane Austen

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. 14 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. 17 other quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. 4 quotes from Christina Rossetti

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. 7 views from Samuel Smiles

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. 11 wisdom & wit from Manuel Puig

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. 11 more quotes from Manuel Puig

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. 30 views from Gustave Flaubert

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. 5 other wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 14 other quotes from Stendhal

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! 13 quotes from Dante Alighieri

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope. 4 more thoughts from Alexandre Dumas

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. 8 more quotes from Tryon Edwards

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. 20 thoughts from Thomas Aquinas

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. 96 views from Benjamin Franklin

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. 67 views from Francis Bacon

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. 5 views from Pliny the Elder

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. 6 other quotes from Evan Esar

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. 19 sayings from Elvis Presley

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. 11 quotes from Robert E. Lee

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. 26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. 41 more quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. 3 quotes from Edward Kennedy

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. 17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. 25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. 24 sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. 41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. 6 other thoughts from Aristotle Onassis

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. 24 quotes from W. C. Fields

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief. 5 sayings from Franz Schubert

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. 10 other wisdom & wit from Tertullian

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. 2 quotes from Ouida

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. 2 views from William McKinley

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. 7 quotes from Max Eastman

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. 12 quotes from Quintilian

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. 47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. 24 other thoughts from James Russell Lowell

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. 7 more quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. 47 other wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 47 more wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. 7 quotes from Georges Bernanos

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. 31 more thoughts from Gertrude Stein

Hope is a risk that must be run. 7 quotes from Georges Bernanos

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. 9 quotes from Howard Nemerov

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. 13 more wisdom & wit from Francois Rabelais

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. 31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. 3 sayings from George Papandreou

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. 3 more sayings from Nicolaus Copernicus

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. 27 more thoughts from James Madison

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. 16 other wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. 5 views from William Jennings Bryan

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. 18 quotes from Washington Irving

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. 70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. 4 other quotes from David Brainerd

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. 27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. 21 more wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? 13 more views from Immanuel Kant

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. 16 sayings from David Hume

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. 12 more thoughts from Thornton Wilder

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. 14 more sayings from Edward Gibbon

One must not hope to be more than one can be. 11 more sayings from Nicolas Chamfort

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. 14 more quotes from Clarence Darrow

The great hope of society is in individual character. 11 more wisdom & wit from William Ellery Channing

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. 14 thoughts from Clarence Darrow

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. 18 more views from Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. 18 views from Emile M. Cioran

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? 3 other wisdom & wit from John James Audubon

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. 43 sayings from Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 43 more quotes from Alexander Pope

Hope will never be silent. 3 quotes from Harvey Milk

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. 24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. 45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. 33 sayings from Thomas Huxley

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 24 more sayings from Joseph Addison

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. 4 more quotes from John Wayne

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. 23 thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did. 8 thoughts from Bobby Darin

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. 3 other sayings from Arnold Bennett

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character. 22 quotes from Robert Browning

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. 6 quotes from Mikhail Bakunin

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. 6 thoughts from John Ciardi

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. 21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor. 7 quotes from Judy Garland

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. 59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. 18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. 28 sayings from William Butler Yeats

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. 15 views from Reinhold Niebuhr

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 31 views from Helen Keller

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. 26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. 6 thoughts from Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. 14 other sayings from Thomas Hardy

The youth is the hope of our future. 3 more quotes from Jose Rizal

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. 10 quotes from William Ralph Inge

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. 7 sayings from Lillian Hellman

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. 2 other sayings from Bernard Berenson

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. 15 thoughts from Norman Cousins

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. 18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck

My sweetest hope is to lose hope. 15 views from Pierre Corneille

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. 7 more views from Lillian Hellman

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. 10 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Bowen

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. 2 other views from John Gay

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. 20 quotes from Christopher Lasch

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. 10 wisdom & wit from Emma Goldman

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. 18 other quotes from Pearl S. Buck

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. 14 other wisdom & wit from Jean Anouilh

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. 31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. 10 views from Arthur Ashe

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. 8 more quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. 31 sayings from Eric Hoffer

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. 17 more quotes from Calvin Coolidge

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. 7 quotes from John Quincy Adams

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. 3 more quotes from Karl A. Menninger

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. 4 other wisdom & wit from Gustav Mahler

Our only hope is to control the vote. 2 wisdom & wit from Medgar Evers

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. 7 quotes from Walter Benjamin

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. 16 wisdom & wit from Douglas Horton

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. 6 more views from Hilaire Belloc

A leader is a dealer in hope. 50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. 7 quotes from Marcus Garvey

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. 50 more sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. 11 other thoughts from Paul Tillich

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. 14 more quotes from Ogden Nash

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. 22 more views from Samuel Richardson

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. 13 other views from Herman Melville

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. 22 quotes from Samuel Richardson

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. 13 other views from Herman Melville

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. 14 wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. 2 quotes from Orville Wright

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. 11 wisdom & wit from Charles Kettering

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. 10 wisdom & wit from Luc de Clapiers

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. 17 more quotes from John Dryden

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. 6 views from Emil Zatopek

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. 23 wisdom & wit from T. S. Eliot

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. 90 more sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. 23 thoughts from T. S. Eliot

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. 14 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. 4 quotes from Jim Henson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. 63 quotes from Samuel Johnson

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. 24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. 63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. 12 more quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. 2 quotes from Daniel Burnham

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. 21 other wisdom & wit from Miguel de Cervantes

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. 2 quotes from Jane Addams

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. 17 wisdom & wit from John Lennon

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. 28 more quotes from Napoleon Hill

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. 103 other sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. 9 more quotes from Niels Bohr

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. 15 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. 4 more wisdom & wit from Jonas Salk

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. 100 more wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. 100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. 13 other thoughts from Mahalia Jackson

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. 24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. 4 wisdom & wit from Lin Yutang

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. 4 more thoughts from Jonas Salk

I hope to bring people to God with my songs. 13 views from Mahalia Jackson

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. 2 sayings from Robert Capa