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Hope Quotes

 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
- Alexander Pope -

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce -

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
- Ambrose Bierce -

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
- Ambrose Bierce -

The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. 
- Ana Jacob -

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
- Andy Rooney -

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. 
- Anne Lamott -

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle -

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Aristotle -

Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle -

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger -

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller -

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E. M. Forster -

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
- E. M. Forster -

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
- Edgar Allan Poe -

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. 
- Edgar Howe -

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
- Elbert Hubbard -

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
- Elvis Presley -

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
- Emil Brunner -

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Emily Dickinson -

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus -

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus -

 

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- John Adams -

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
- John F. Kennedy -

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
- John Lennon -

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon -

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
- John Ruskin -

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison -

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison -

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison -

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings -

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
- Josh Hartnett -

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
- Judy Garland -

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. 
- Robert G. Ingersoll -

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
- Rodney Dangerfield -

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. 
- Samuel Johnson -

Hope costs nothing.
- Sidonie Gabrielle -

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
- Stendhal -

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Stendhal -

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.
- Steve Jobs -

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
- T. S. Eliot -

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
- T. S. Eliot -

Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence -

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle -

 

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