Quotes
Quotes about Hope
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Apoplexic, and Lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!"
My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.".
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
