Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Sri Chinmoy

Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Sri Chinmoy

To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

Robert E. Lee

It is history that teaches us to hope.

Robert Louis Stevenson

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

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.

William Wordsworth

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William J. Clinton

I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.

William J. Clinton

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

William Ellery Channing

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

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.