Hope Quotes - 4
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Our heart's where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honour We pledge to our native soil!
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More Hope Quotes - 4
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1624), No. 36
Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Frank darabont— Frank Darabont, in the screenplay for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a story by Stephen King
"Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all And sweetest in the Gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm
— Emily Dickinson, Poem 254 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960), edited by Thomas H. Johnson
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
william hazlitt— William Hazlitt, Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823), No. 34
Hope is the poor man's bread.
— English proverb, reported in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651), No. 437
He that lives in hope danceth without music.
— English proverb, reported in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1640), No. 1006
Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free truly free to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.
— Derrick Jensen, in Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, p.330
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 67 (6 November 1750)
With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.
william mountford— William Mountford, Euthanasy (4th ed., 1852), Ch. 11
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Antichrist (1888), Sec. 23
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
ezra pound— Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur (1938), part 3, Section 6, Chapter 22
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
— Proverbs 13:12 (KJV)
In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
— Charles H. Revson, as quoted in Andrew Tobias, Fire and Ice (1976)
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819), Act V, scene 4
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821), st. 39
Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes, Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 1,514
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
— Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea (about 370). Letter to Gregory of Nazianzus. Found in A. Von Humboldt's Cosmos
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
william ellery channing— William Ellery Channing, A Poet's Hope, Stanza 13
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
william collins— William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 3
In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 81
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 633
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, The World before the Flood, Canto V
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
maya angelou
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
Princess Leia Organa— Played by Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: Episdoe IV - A New Hope (1977).
Hope is living with courage and confidence, not fear.
Penny Boldrey— Cancer survivor
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller— American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author (1926 - 2015)
Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.
Benjamin Alire saenz— Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Soulmates aren’t the ones who make you happiest, no. They’re instead the ones who make you feel the most. Burning edges and scars and stars. Old pangs, captivation and beauty. Strain and shadows and worry and yearning. Sweetness and madness and dreamlike surrender. They hurl you into the abyss. They taste like hope.
Victoria Erikson— Writer
