Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis L'Amour

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Louis Farrakhan

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

The most wretched have yet hope.

Marquis de Sade

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Nick Hornby

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

Nick Hornby

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Marvin J. Ashton

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

Martha Beck

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Michel de Montaigne

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

Michel de Montaigne

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

Michel de Montaigne

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Mark Twain

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

Marianne Williamson

If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

Marianne Williamson

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

Marianne Williamson

Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

Marianne Williamson

I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

Freddie Mercury

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Frank Miller

A man without hope is a man without fear.

George Chakiris

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

John Milton

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

John Milton

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

John Milton

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

John Milton

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

John Milton

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Miguel de Cervantes

With life many things are remedied.