Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry L. Stimson

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Robert Bridges

I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Tom Holt

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

Tom Stoppard

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Joyce Meyer

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Marianne Williamson

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Marianne Williamson

Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

Marianne Williamson

I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

The most wretched have yet hope.

Marquis de Sade

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.

Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Martin Luther

Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Martin Luther

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Martin Luther

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Nick Jonas

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

Philip Sidney

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

And as it is set up today, I believe, sadly, it has no hope of uniting the 90 percent of workers who have no union at all.

Kim Dae Jung

And if we succeed this year to realize reform in various fields, then from next year there ought to be some hope for our country.

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Friedrich Schiller

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Friedrich Schiller

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.