Hope Quotes for Inspiration & Perspective – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Steven Squyres

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

Paul Ricoeur

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Audre Lorde

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Anthony Trollope

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Fred Thompson

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

Gene Wolfe

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Sinclair Lewis

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Bryant H. McGill

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.

John Quincy Adams

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Kim Campbell

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Rudy Giuliani

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

William Samuel Johnson

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Friedrich Schiller

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Eamon de Valera

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

Terence

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

Todd McFarlane

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Paul Auster

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

David Chalmers

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Robert Mapplethorpe

In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.

Bill Owens

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Lisa Guerrero

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Virgil Thomson

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Paul Wellstone

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

Jonathan Franzen

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Studs Terkel