Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Kurt Cobain

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Napoleon Hill

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Norman Spinrad

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope ...

Orison Swett Marden

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

Orison Swett Marden

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

Mason Cooley

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Mason Cooley

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Mason Cooley

When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

Mason Cooley

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

Mason Cooley

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Mary Livermore

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

Menander

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Mark Rosenker

The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

Teri Garr

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future

Malcolm X

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

And hopefully by the end of today or sometime tomorrow, we'll know if that is possible.

Erik Morales

. . . I just hope I can keep pressure on him and make him fight.

Erik Erikson

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Brady Quinn

The first two years were rough, and this year's better. But we still are working to win a national championship. Hopefully that's somewhere in the future.

Jeff Gordon

The first thing I did was go to Rick Hendrick and tell him what I'd been approached with, what I would like to do and what my hopes were. We worked it all out, and first thing I know I'm signing a lifetime contract.

Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Michael Pollan

I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

Sidney Poitier

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Martin Luther

Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.

Martin Luther

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Martin Luther

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.