Quote: My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. Author: Dr. Robert Anthony American educator
Quote: Hope is a waking dream. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Hope is the dream of a waking man. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Author: Matthew Arnold 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic
Quote: Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Hope is the parent of faith. Author: Cyrus A. Bartol
Quote: Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out. Author: May L. Becker
Quote: No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn. Author: Hal Borland 1900-1978, American Writer
Quote: Hope is the best part of our riches. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: But 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. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Where there is no vision, there is no hope. Author: George Washington Carver 1864-1943, American Scientist
Quote: The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. Author: John Ciardi 1916-1986, American Teacher, Poet, Writer
Quote: To the sick, while there is life there is hope. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Author: Leonard Cohen 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Quote: Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Author: Abraham Cowley 1618-1667, British Poet
Quote: The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Author: Fyodor Dostoevski 1821-1881, Russian Novelist
Quote: Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Author: Erik H. Erikson Austrian Developmental Psychologist
Quote: That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope. Author: George Robert Gissing 1857-1903, British Novelist, Critic, Essayist
Quote: In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Author: Thomas C. Haliburton 1796-1865, Canadian Jurist, Author
Quote: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Author: Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President
Quote: Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back. Author: Don Henley American Musician
Quote: Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Author: Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer
Quote: Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Author: Jesse Jackson 1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader
Quote: Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. Author: John Johnson American Businessman, Founder of Johnson Publishing
Quote: Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Amateurs hope, professionals work. Author: Garson Kanin 1912-, American Playwright/Screenwriter, Stage/Movie Director
Quote: What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? Author: Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, German Philosopher
Quote: Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Author: Jean Kerr 1923-, American Author, Playwright
Quote: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Kingsley 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman
Quote: 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. Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote: Hope and fear are inseparable. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author
Quote: Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. Author: Susanna Moodie 1803-1885, Canadian Author
Quote: The safest hope is in heaven. Author: Motto
Quote: Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Author: Alfred Nobel 1833-1886, Swedish-Russian Chemist, Industrialist, Founder of the Nobel Prizes
Quote: He who does not hope to win has already lost. Author: Jose Joaquin Olmedo
Quote: Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. Author: Ouida 1838-1908, British Writer
Quote: I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new. Author: Peter Demianovich Ouspensky 1878-1947, Russian Philosopher
Quote: My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. Author: Matthew Prior 1664-1721, British Diplomat, Poet
Quote: A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. Author: Proverb
Quote: Quit not certainty for hope. Author: Proverb
Quote: He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Hope is the dream of a soul awake. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Were it not for hope the heart would break. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: My only hope lies in my despair. Author: Jean Racine 1639-1699, French Dramatist
Quote: In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. Author: Charles Revson American Businessman, Chairman of Revlon
Quote: Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin. Author: Wallace Rice 1859-1939, American Poet, Editor
Quote: Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... Author: Christina Rossetti 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist
Quote: Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. Author: Ruckett
Quote: Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. Author: Charles Sawyer
Quote: Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: He who has never hoped can never despair. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
Quote: Hope is the poor man's bread. Author: Thales of Miletus 640?-546 B.C.? Semitic Founder of Greek Philosophy, Sciences
Quote: From the withered tree, a flower blooms. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Our hopes are but memories reversed. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself. Author: Sidney A. Weltmer
Quote: Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Author: Elie Wiesel 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer
Quote: When one door closes another one opens with great possibilities ahead Author: Mikayla Unknown