Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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.

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.

Ouida

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

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.

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.

Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

Oscar Hammerstein II

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

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.

William S. Burroughs

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

William Lyon Phelps

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Woodrow Wilson

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

William Wordsworth

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William J. Clinton

I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.

William J. Clinton

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

William Ellery Channing

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Faulkner

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Robert E. Lee

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Robert Smithson

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Vincent McNabb

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Warren Buffett

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.