quotations about hope
One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope.
EDWARD COUNSEL
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Maxims
If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.
EARL PFEIFFER
Clash by Night
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
MARIAN ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Fall of Atlantis
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Those that hope little cannot grow much.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Hope of the Gospel
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
GEORGE GISSING
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night,
Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth,
To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth;
But these go out and leave us with no light.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!
JEAN CALVIN
Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
While there is life there is hope--and while there is hope there is life.
E. E. HOLMES
Joyful Through Hope
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
BILL CLINTON
speech at Democratic National Convention, August 29, 1996
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Children of Hurin
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Work Without Hope
The greatest architect and the one most needed is Hope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Hope joined us in the cradle, and will be with us at the last.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
Hope is delicate suffering.
AMIRI BARAKA
Cold
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
ANDRÉ GODIN
In Thought
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
"Maternal Dream"