Quotes For Hope

• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Ovid

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. Tahar Ben Jelloun

• One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. Jim Carrey

• Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad

• The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. Simone Weil

• We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. Kofi Annan

• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

• In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll

• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. Ovid

• Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. John Ciardi

• 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

• It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. Benazir Bhutto

• I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value. Paul Walker

• I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. Roger Moore

• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Victor Hugo

• My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. Thomas Arnold

• To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm

• Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. Noel Coward

• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon

• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. John Dryden

• Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide. Bill Owens

• Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Evan Esar

• 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

• I hope to die in the saddle seat. Albert Ellis

• Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen

• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle. Abbie Cornish

• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. Emil Zatopek

• Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. James A. Baldwin

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. Orson Scott Card

• President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. Lindsey Graham

• So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. Mika Waltari

• A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Grandma Moses

• If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. Chuck Palahniuk

• Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. Bob Riley

• We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human. Dionne Warwick

• 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

• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger Dijkstra

• I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. Geezer Butler

• I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me. Carol Vorderman