Quotes
Quotes about Hope
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
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.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
It is to hope, though hope were lost.
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
"Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.
Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.
Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]
With life many things are remedied. (While there's life there's hope.) [Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
