Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

Samuel Butler

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

W. H. Auden

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

W. H. Auden

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

William Cowper

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

William Cowper

Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope is a slow business.

Robert Louis Stevenson

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

Vita Sackville-West

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Roseanne Barr

I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

Saint Augustine

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

Saint Augustine

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Saint Augustine

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

Winston Churchill

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

W. C. Fields

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Wilfred Owen

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

Wilferd Peterson

"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

Voltaire

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

William Sloane Coffin

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Walter Scott

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

Walter Scott

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Winston Churchill

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

Winston Churchill

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Winston Churchill

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Winston Churchill

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

Winston Churchill

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

Rhonda Byrne

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

Rick Warren

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.