Hope famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
-- A. P. Herbert -
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
-- Aaliyah -
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
-- Aberjhani -
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
-- Abraham Cowley -
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
-- Adrienne Rich -
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
-- Albert Camus -
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
-- Albert Einstein -
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
-- Albert Einstein -
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
-- Albert Shanker -
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
-- Alexander Pope -
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
-- Alfred Billings Street -
The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.
-- Alfred Bunn -
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
-- Alyssa Milano -
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
-- Amy Tan -
With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
-- Amy Tan -
It is to hope, though hope were lost.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
-- Anne Frank -
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
-- Anne Frank -
If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
-- Anne Lamott -
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
-- Aristotle -
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
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.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
-- Arsene Houssaye -
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.
-- Ayi Kwei Armah -
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
-- Barack Obama -
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
-- Barack Obama -
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...
-- Baroness Orczy -
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
-- Baruch Spinoza -
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
-- Basil Hume -
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...
-- Bayard Taylor -
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
-- Bentley Little -
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
-- Bernard Berenson -
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
-- Bernard Williams -
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
-- Beryl Markham -
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
-- Bill Cosby -
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
-- Billy Graham -
We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
-- Blaise Pascal -
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
-- Bob Hope -
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.
-- Brad Warner -
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.
-- Bradley Whitford -
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
-- Bruce Barton -
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
-- Burton Silverman -
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
-- Carl Sandburg -
Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?
-- Carl Sandburg -
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.
-- Carol Kent -
A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
-- Caroline Norton -
He who expects not to achieve will never do so.
-- Caron Butler -
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
-- Catherine Doherty -
God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.
-- Catherine Marshall -
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
-- Charles Kingsley -
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
-- Charles L. Allen -
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-- Charlotte Whitton -
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
-- Christina Rossetti -
For I am bound with fleshly bands, Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope; I strain my heart, I stretch my hands, And catch at hope.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven.
-- Christina Rossetti
