Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

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.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

John F. Kennedy

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

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

John F. Kennedy

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Jon Stewart

I like not to be good at anything, so I keep hopping around.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Sri Chinmoy

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Sri Chinmoy

To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

Robert E. Lee

It is history that teaches us to hope.

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?

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.

William S. Burroughs

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

William Lyon Phelps

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Woodrow Wilson

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

William Wordsworth

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

William Shenstone

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.

William J. Clinton

I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.

William J. Clinton

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.