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Short Hope Quotes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Inspirational Hope Quotes

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bertrand Russell

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Bryant H. McGill

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope Quotes About Strength

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

Adam Schiff

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Stephen Lewis

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Bill Owens

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Louis Finkelstein

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

Kurt Huber

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

Francois Rabelais

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

More Hope Quotes

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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

Winston Churchill

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

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.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

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

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Herman Melville

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

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

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.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Calvin Coolidge

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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

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

William Butler Yeats

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Paul Ricoeur

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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.

Ogden Nash

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Elie Wiesel

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Ed Markey

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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