Hope Quotes

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.

Lord Byron

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Ayn Rand

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Neil LaBute

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.

Henry Miller

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Mia Wasikowska

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Paul Ryan

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

Gustav Stresemann

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

Marco Rubio

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche