Quotes about hope
hope peace bread
Pearl S. Buck To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
hope wisdom believe
Peter Ustinov The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
hope blow men
Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
hope strong eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
hope hate rap
Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
hopeful sides depressive
Selma Blair 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.
hope healing dark
Sean O'Casey When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
hope inspiration may
Leonard Nimoy 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
hope evil excellence
Sid Caesar A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
hope liars fire
Shel Silverstein If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!
hopeless-romantic hopeless
Taylor Swift I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.
hope incredibles demented
Lauren Bacall Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?
hope-love without-hope dies
Laurell K. Hamilton Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.
hope sweet dark
John Keats So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.
hope one-day fundamentals
Pema Chodron 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.
hopeful doe lessons
Piers Anthony 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!
hope cutting roots
Rachel Field 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.
hopeless
Rachel Cohn All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless
hope hands void
Rabindranath Tagore 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.
hope paving-the-way favour
Queen Elizabeth II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass...
hope time sleep
Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
hope wisdom men
Ralph Waldo Emerson We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
hope no-hope fulfilment
Ralph Waldo Emerson No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
hope crime reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
hope men judging
Ralph Waldo Emerson We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
hope courage mud
Ralph Waldo Emerson Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
hope oxygen wings
Lewis B. Smedes Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.
hopeful important culture
Karl Rove Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
hope heart men
Ouida Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
hope true-friend recovery
Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.
hope men yield
Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.
hope
Ovid My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]