Quotes
Quotes about Hope
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
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 year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
This casket threatens; men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages. A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross; I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring, So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. Chalmers.
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. â¢Bible Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. â¢Gaelic Proverb There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. â¢Gilbert K. Chesterton If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. â¢Arabian Proverb The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. â¢Benjamin Franklin See with your mind, hear with your heart. â¢Kurdish Proverb Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. â¢David Hare Were it not for hope the heart would break.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. -Bob Hope.
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
