Hope Quotes

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
     - Author Unknown -      

May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.
     - Author Unknown -                      

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
     - Ayn Rand -

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
     - Barack Obama -

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
     - Barack Obama -

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
     - Bertrand Russell -

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
     - Benjamin Franklin -

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
     - Bill Cosby -

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
     - Bill Cosby -

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
     - Bill Cosby -

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
     - Friedrich Nietzsche -

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
     - Fyodor Dostoevsky -

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
     - George Chakiris -

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
     - George Iles -

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
     - George Santayana -

 
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.
     - George Weinberg -

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
     - George W. Bush -

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
     - George W. Bush -

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
     - George Washington -

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
     - Gertrude Stein -

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.
     - Gertrude Stein -

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
     - Helen Keller -

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
     - Martin Luther King, Jr. -

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
     - Maya Angelou -

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
     - Maya Angelou -

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
     - Mick Jagger -

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
     - Mignon McLaughlin -

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
     - Mohandas Gandhi -

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
     - Napoleon Bonaparte -

A leader is a dealer in hope.
     - Napoleon Bonaparte -

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
     - Napoleon Hill -

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
     - Niccolo Machiavelli -

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
     - Noel Coward -

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
     - Oliver Wendell Holmes -

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
     - Vincent van Gogh -

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

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
     - Walt Disney -

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
     - Walt Disney -

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
     - Warren Buffett -

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
     - William Butler Yeats -

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
     - William S. Burroughs -

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
     - William Shakespeare -

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
     - Winston Churchill –

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
     - William Sloan Coffin -

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
     - William Wordsworth -

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