Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

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

Nick Jonas

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

Michael Moore

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

Theodore Roosevelt

We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

Michael Stipe

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

Ramon Magsaysay

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Bentley

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Eric Balfour

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.

The hope is when we go back to Seattle, we can use her even more. She was doing everything. If she's mentally doing those things, she's ready to play.

The hope is we'll be living in Philadelphia.

The hope is that (Netanyahu and Arafat) will reconnect,

The hope is that it will not increase the waiting period.

James F. Cooper

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Mary Stewart

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Mary Ellen Chase

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Plautus

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Plato

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Martin Seligman

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

Martin Seligman

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Lauryn Hill

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

Laini Taylor

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

John Suckling

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

James Keller

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

James Keller

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

James Keller

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

James Keller

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Friedrich Schiller

What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Friedrich Schiller

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Luc de Clapiers

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.