Hope Quotes

"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

"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

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

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"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

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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

"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

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever"

John Ruskin, Writer

"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it"

Doug Coupland, 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

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"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

"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

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope"

Martin Luther, Professor

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence"

Helen Keller, Author

"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"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

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Keep hope alive!"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve"

George Allen, Sr., Coach