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Friday, 21 November 2008
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"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Hope

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
From the withered tree, a flower blooms.
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Hope is a waking dream.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Hope is the parent of faith.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.
Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.
Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
-- Ovid | Hope
My only hope lies in my despair.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
Our hopes are but memories reversed.
Quit not certainty for hope.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
-- Ouida | Hope
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.