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Howard Gossage

Composition date: 1861

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for someth

Margaret Weis

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere

HEBER: _On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope._

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Oliver Herford

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.

Pierre Corneille

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead

Pliny

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Madeleine Albright

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.

Thomas Hardy

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 45.

Auspicious hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.

Frida Kahlo

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

John Perry

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up.

Arab Proverb

He who has health has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

Vaclav Havel

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for someth

Bruce Barton

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Samuel Johnson

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 disappo

La Rochefoucauld

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Band of Brothers

We???re all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there???s still hope. The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you???re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you???ll be able to function as a soldier???s supposed to function:

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 108.

So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 108.

Farewell hope! and with hope, farewell fear! Farewell remorse! all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good; by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's king I hold.

Lou Vickery

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

Antonio Porchia

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Aeschylus

Exiles feed on hope.

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Martin Luther

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

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

Madeleine L'Engle

Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.

William Cowper

He has no hope who never had a fear.

H. Jackson Jr. Brown

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.

Ayn Rand

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

Bob Hope

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.

Yiddish Proverb

Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.

C. Neil Strait

A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Greenday

Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life.

Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here

Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Margaret Weis

Hope is the denial of reality.

Thornton

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Bob Hope

I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.

La Rochefoucauld

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Ivan Illich

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Carrie P. Snow

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

George Herbert

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever

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 a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for somethi

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

"I've given up hope." "Good! Hope sucks."

And now here's something we hope you'll really like

Now that I've given up hope I feel much better...

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

God, I hope he isn't a schmuck like the others.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Never lose hope.

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

*KA-BLAMM!!* Whatever that was, I hope its on our side

I hope that Schroedinger guy put litter in here...

I certainly hope it's cheap and trashy...

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Hope is the nurse of misery.

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

Don't panic... It's supposed to do that... I hope

Hope is a waking dream.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Hope is only the love of life.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Abandon all hope ye who have entered cyberspace.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

All hope abandon, ye who press ENTER here

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

"May our nation continue to be the BEAKON of hope to the

I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.