Quotes about hope
hope wisdom men
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope no-hope fulfilment
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope crime reason
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope men judging
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope courage mud
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope blow men
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope strong eye
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hope hate rap
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
hopeful sides depressive
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side. Selma Blair
hope healing dark
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Sean O'Casey
hope inspiration may
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true Leonard Nimoy
hope wisdom believe
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov
hope one-day fundamentals
We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there. Pema Chodron
hopeful doe lessons
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first! Piers Anthony
hope cutting roots
No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency. Rachel Field
hopeless
All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless Rachel Cohn
hope hands void
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope. Rabindranath Tagore
hope paving-the-way favour
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass... Queen Elizabeth II
hope fancy humans
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies. James F. Cooper
hope men long
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. Joseph Addison
hope religious mind
A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them. Joseph Addison
hope distance lying
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view. Joseph Addison
hope escaping age
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded. Jose Bergamin
hope lives people room screen sitting stop strangers watching
You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.
hope matches
You can't always hope for matches to go that uneventfully. Andre Agassi
hope new-year's smiles threshold
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' Alfred Lord Tennyson
hopelessly jury
The jury declared that it was hopelessly deadlocked this morning.
hope art limits
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. Martin Seligman
hope two style
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Martin Seligman
hopeless
I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road. Lauryn Hill
hope powerful heart
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. Laini Taylor
hope blessing expectations
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was. John Suckling
hopeful despair
Hope opens doors where despair closes them. James Keller