Hope Quotes: Inspiring Words of Optimism and Encouragement (Page 4)

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms"

Mark Twain, Author

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man"

Victor Hugo, Author

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"While there's life, there's hope"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself"

Cicero, Philosopher

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Hope is the dream of a waking man"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Hope is a waking dream"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"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

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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