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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
14 other quotes from Stendhal
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
13 more views from Dante Alighieri
All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.
4 sayings from Alexandre Dumas
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
8 more quotes from Tryon Edwards
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
11 quotes from Epicurus
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
67 other views from Francis Bacon
Hope is a waking dream.
75 other quotes from Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
75 sayings from Aristotle
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
5 more quotes from Pliny the Elder
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
6 quotes from Evan Esar
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
19 quotes from Elvis Presley
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
11 other sayings from Robert E. Lee
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
26 more views from E. M. Forster
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
3 other quotes from Edward Kennedy
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
17 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
25 views from Orison Swett Marden
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
24 more quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
6 other quotes from Aristotle Onassis
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
24 quotes from W. C. Fields
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
75 thoughts from Aristotle
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
5 more thoughts from Franz Schubert
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
10 sayings from Tertullian
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
2 wisdom & wit from Ouida
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
2 other views from William McKinley
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
7 wisdom & wit from Max Eastman
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
12 views from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
24 other views from James Russell Lowell
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
9 views from William S. Burroughs
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
7 quotes from Nikos Kazantzakis
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
47 more quotes from Abraham Lincoln
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
24 more sayings from Ayn Rand
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
7 views from Georges Bernanos
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
31 other wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
Hope is a risk that must be run.
7 quotes from Georges Bernanos
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
9 other quotes from Howard Nemerov
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
13 more thoughts from Francois Rabelais
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
31 views from Gertrude Stein
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
3 thoughts from George Papandreou
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
3 thoughts from Nicolaus Copernicus
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
105 views from Albert Einstein
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
27 thoughts from James Madison
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
5 views from William Jennings Bryan
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
42 other sayings from Josh Billings
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
18 wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
81 other thoughts from William Shakespeare
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
38 other quotes from William Hazlitt
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
4 more quotes from David Brainerd
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
70 other views from Thomas Jefferson
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
70 wisdom & wit from Thomas Jefferson
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
13 quotes from Immanuel Kant
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
16 other wisdom & wit from David Hume
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
12 more sayings from Thornton Wilder
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
14 wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
11 quotes from Nicolas Chamfort
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
14 thoughts from Clarence Darrow
The great hope of society is in individual character.
11 views from William Ellery Channing
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
14 more quotes from Clarence Darrow
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
18 other thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
18 other sayings from Emile M. Cioran
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
3 quotes from John James Audubon
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
43 other views from Alexander Pope
Hope will never be silent.
3 thoughts from Harvey Milk
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
45 quotes from Bertrand Russell
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
33 views from Thomas Huxley
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
24 thoughts from Joseph Addison
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
4 thoughts from John Wayne
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
23 sayings from Niccolo Machiavelli
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
8 views from Bobby Darin
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
3 more sayings from Arnold Bennett
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
23 more quotes from E. W. Howe
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
6 other quotes from Mikhail Bakunin
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
6 sayings from John Ciardi
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
21 other sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
7 more quotes from Judy Garland
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
28 views from William Butler Yeats
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.
15 wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
31 other quotes from Helen Keller
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
26 more thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
6 wisdom & wit from Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
14 quotes from Thomas Hardy
The youth is the hope of our future.
3 more thoughts from Jose Rizal
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
10 quotes from William Ralph Inge
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
7 more thoughts from Lillian Hellman
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
2 quotes from Bernard Berenson
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
15 sayings from Norman Cousins
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
15 wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
7 wisdom & wit from Lillian Hellman
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
10 more quotes from Elizabeth Bowen
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
2 other quotes from John Gay
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
20 sayings from Christopher Lasch
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
10 other views from Emma Goldman
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
18 other views from Pearl S. Buck
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
14 quotes from Jean Anouilh
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
10 more thoughts from Arthur Ashe
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
8 sayings from William Makepeace Thackeray
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
31 other quotes from Eric Hoffer
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
7 more quotes from John Quincy Adams
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
3 more sayings from Karl A. Menninger
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
4 other views from Gustav Mahler
Our only hope is to control the vote.
2 other sayings from Medgar Evers
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
7 thoughts from Walter Benjamin
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
16 sayings from Douglas Horton
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
6 other wisdom & wit from Hilaire Belloc
A leader is a dealer in hope.
50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
7 thoughts from Marcus Garvey
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
11 quotes from Paul Tillich
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
14 thoughts from Ogden Nash
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
22 other views from Samuel Richardson
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
13 sayings from Herman Melville
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
22 views from Samuel Richardson
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
13 sayings from Herman Melville
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
14 wisdom & wit from Ogden Nash
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
2 sayings from Orville Wright
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
10 thoughts from Luc de Clapiers
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
17 wisdom & wit from John Dryden
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
6 views from Emil Zatopek
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
23 other quotes from T. S. Eliot
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
23 more thoughts from T. S. Eliot
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 views from F. Scott Fitzgerald
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
4 thoughts from Jim Henson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
63 other thoughts from Samuel Johnson
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
12 sayings from Miguel de Unamuno
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 other quotes from Daniel Burnham
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
2 other sayings from Jane Addams
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
17 quotes from John Lennon
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
28 sayings from Napoleon Hill
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
9 views from Niels Bohr
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
15 other thoughts from Desiderius Erasmus
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
4 other thoughts from Jonas Salk
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
13 quotes from Mahalia Jackson
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
4 sayings from Lin Yutang
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
4 more quotes from Jonas Salk
I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
13 more quotes from Mahalia Jackson
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
2 more wisdom & wit from Robert Capa
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
12 other views from William Cowper
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
52 more wisdom & wit from George Eliot
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
2 more quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
21 sayings from Dale Carnegie
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
4 thoughts from Antonio Porchia
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
25 quotes from Will Durant
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
10 sayings from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
9 quotes from Charles M. Schulz
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
3 thoughts from Benjamin Banneker
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
4 other quotes from Antonio Porchia
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.
8 views from William Shenstone
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
8 views from Oliver Goldsmith
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
3 more thoughts from Virgil Thomson
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
10 more quotes from Robert Mapplethorpe
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
14 more quotes from Hedy Lamarr
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
14 more wisdom & wit from Hedy Lamarr
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
18 more quotes from Baruch Spinoza
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
10 sayings from Robert Mapplethorpe
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
29 other quotes from Friedrich Schiller
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
14 sayings from Wendell Phillips
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
7 quotes from Samuel Smiles
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
26 other thoughts from Emily Dickinson
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
26 views from Emily Dickinson
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
23 more wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
58 more views from Thomas Carlyle
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
30 other views from Gustave Flaubert
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
14 sayings from Joseph Conrad
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
17 other thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
4 quotes from Christina Rossetti
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
7 quotes from Samuel Smiles
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
11 sayings from Manuel Puig
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
11 thoughts from Manuel Puig
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
30 thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
5 other sayings from Anwar Sadat