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Quotes about Hope


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

Bertrand Russell

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

William Shakespeare

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Jean Kerr

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.

Vaclav Havel

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

La Rochefoucauld

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.

Matthew Prior

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.

Thomas Fuller

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.

Elie Weisel

While I breath, I hope.

Geanini Barbeli

Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle.

Geanini Aristotle

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King

Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.

Emily Dickenson

Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown.

Emily Unknown

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Thomas Bailey Bible

Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.

Nicholas Rowe

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)

If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Unattributed Aristotle

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

Joseph Addison

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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