Hope Quotes

"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions"

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"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, President

"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant"

John F. Kennedy, President

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope"

Ovid, Poet

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear"

Ovid, Poet

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Where there's life, there's hope"

Terence, Playwright

"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for"

Terence, Playwright

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return"

Maya Angelou, Poet

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