Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maxine Hong Kingston

In a time of destruction, create something.

Maya Angelou

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

Maurice Chevalier

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

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.

Rhonda Byrne

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

Rick Warren

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

Ovid

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

Oscar Hammerstein II

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

Peter Marshall

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?

Phillips Brooks

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

Philip Yancey

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

Pope John XXIII

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

Natsuki Takaya

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Victor Hugo

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Robert Frost

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Thomas More

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Thomas Shadwell

Hope is a very thin diet.