HOPE QUOTES

• Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
  ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
• No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.
  ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~
• Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.
  ~ Kalidasa ~
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
  ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
• Sometimes the past is like the snow falling from the blue skies. If you are cold, hopeless, and unforgiving. The snow will never melt away it will continue building and covering all the beauty in your life. Contrastingly if you are warm and kind and have a beautiful light glowing all around you. All the snow will melt away leaving plenty of room for true love mmmmmmmmmm ya.
  ~ Francesca Etheart ~
• A stupid man has more hope than the one advising a fool.
  ~ Sirlanto Sirlanto ~
• Don't get me wrong, I can do it on my own. But I sure hope I won't have to.
  ~ Grey Hanjawa ~
• What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
  ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
  ~ Thomas Hardy ~
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
  ~ Gertrude Stein ~
• The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
  ~ Kenneth Patchen ~
• So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
  ~ Alfred Austin ~
• People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
  ~ Ovid ~
• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
  ~ Robert Southey ~
• 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 ~
• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses.
  ~ Katherine Mansfield ~
• I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
  ~ Katherine Mansfield ~
• Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
  ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
• Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Hope is necessary in every condition.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• He has no hope who never had a fear.
  ~ William Cowper ~
• Exiles feed on hope.
  ~ Aeschylus ~
• Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
  ~ Samuel Johnson ~
• Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
  ~ Gertrude Stein ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind.
  ~ Thomas Campbell ~
• Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• All hope abandon, ye who enter here
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
  ~ Oliver Herford ~
• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
  ~ Curt Schilling ~
• The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
  ~ Eric Alterman ~
• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
  ~ Eric Alterman ~
• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
  ~ Eric Alterman ~
• Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
  ~ Conrad Black ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
  ~ Sharon Stone ~
• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
  ~ Octavia Butler ~
• Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
  ~ Octavia Butler ~
• We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
  ~ Anna Kendrick ~
• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
  ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
• Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
  ~ Richard Russo ~
• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
  ~ Miguel De Unamuno ~
• My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
  ~ Pierre Corneille ~
• So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
  ~ Godfrey Reggio ~
• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
  ~ Clarence Darrow ~
• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
  ~ Edward De Bono ~
• I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
  ~ Billie Jean King ~
• My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!
  ~ Paula Deen ~
• I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
  ~ Fred Durst ~
• You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
  ~ Dick Cheney ~
• So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
  ~ Tyra Banks ~