Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

hope

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

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

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

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

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

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

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

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.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

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

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Hope will never be silent.

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.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

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

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

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.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

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.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

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

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

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

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

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.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.