Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Faulkner

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Saint Augustine

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

Robert E. Lee

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Thomas Shadwell

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas S. Monson

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Thomas Sowell

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Robert Kennedy

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert H. Schuller

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Roseanne Barr

I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

Robert Smithson

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Vincent McNabb

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

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.

Saint Augustine

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Saint Augustine

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

Winston Churchill

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

W. C. Fields

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

Yusef Komunyakaa

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.