Quotes about hope
hope fear government
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away. Harriet Martineau
hopeful genius characteristics
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
hope joy tides
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage. Harriet Beecher Stowe
hope dark clouds
However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud... Horace Bushnell
hope future thinking
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn
hope reaching
The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes. Horace
hope growing-up spring
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life. James Freeman Clarke
hope children dragons
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. Gilbert K. Chesterton
hope ambition clouds
Hope clouds observation. Frank Herbert
hope wisdom responsibility
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. Haim Ginott
hopeless-romantic hopeless
I am a hopeless romantic. Jessica Brown Findlay
hopeful persons
I am a very hopeful person. Jessica Capshaw
hope believe want
We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so. Hubert H. Humphrey
hope wisdom integrity
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.
hope mouth
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
hope room time
For the first time in a long time there's room for hope and optimism.
hope expectations difficult-times
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Ivan Illich
hope light shadow
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. J. R. R. Tolkien
hope doubt despair
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
hope optimistic fighting
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
hope nurse desire
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
hope ought knows
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? Immanuel Kant
hope grief love-you
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. Ellen Bass
hope prayer wings
All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
hope strong distance
No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.
hope new-year years
It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.
hope dust years
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust...
hope journey men
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
hope fear commitment
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
hope enough deceitful
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
hope men lasts
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
hope mistake sacrifice
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
hope expectations office
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.