Quotes on Hope

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

We have to inspire people and give them a sense of hope. We need to bring people along, not ridicule and tear them down.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

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

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.