Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joseph Addison

Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.

Joseph Addison

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Joseph Addison

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

Jose Bergamin

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

John C. Maxwell

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

The last time was two years ago when we had Andrea Bocelli, ... We hope this is a precursor, and down the road we'll be able to offer to the valley a menu of big concerts.

Scott Parker

The league has been so up and down. I hope that some of those other teams have peaked and that we won't peak until the end of the season.

Norman Vincent Peale

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Norman Vincent Peale

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

Norman Vincent Peale

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

Norman Vincent Peale

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Emily Bronte

Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

Emily Dickinson

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

Am I surprised? Let's say I was hopeful and we have been working towards this.

All of those byes made us look flat. I hope that they come out (today) and have more life.

And as it is set up today, I believe, sadly, it has no hope of uniting the 90 percent of workers who have no union at all.

Kim Dae Jung

And if we succeed this year to realize reform in various fields, then from next year there ought to be some hope for our country.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Heraclitus

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Henry Ward Beecher

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Henry Ward Beecher

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

Henry L. Stimson

Hope is the mainspring of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.