2016-02-15

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.             Albert Einstein

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.           Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.           Maya Angelou

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.                Abraham Lincoln

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.   Elbert Hubbard

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

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.           Mark Twain

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.                Emily Dickinson

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.            Oscar Wilde

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.        Epicurus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.      Epictetus

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.                Joseph Addison

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.            Michelle Obama

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.        Aristotle

Hope is the dream of a waking man.       Aristotle

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.         Aristotle Onassis

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?        Barack Obama

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.  John Wayne

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.                Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.            Evan Esar

Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.           H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.               Alexander Pope

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. Chester W. Nimitz

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.    Anne Frank

In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.         Lucy Maud Montgomery

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.  Marcus Garvey

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.        Thomas Carlyle

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.                Franklin D. Roosevelt

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.           W. C. Fields

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.  T. S. Eliot

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.          George Washington Carver

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.                Charles M. Schulz

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.         Arnold H. Glasow

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.     Jesse Jackson

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.    Mason Cooley

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.  Henry Rollins

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

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.            Robert Green Ingersoll

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.       Jim Henson

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.       Martha Beck

To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.   Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.     Christopher Reeve

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.          William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.               Samuel Smiles

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.              Will Durant

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.        Elie Wiesel

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.  Lillian Hellman

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.             Edward Kennedy

Hope will never be silent.             Harvey Milk

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.                Francois Rabelais

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.  Arthur Ashe

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.           Henri Frederic Amiel

It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.                Herman Cain

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.    Antonio Porchia

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.   Alexandre Dumas

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.  Friedrich Durrenmatt

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!  Dante Alighieri

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.               Ivan Illich

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish – that’s what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.      Louis C. K.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.      Jonas Salk

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.              Erma Bombeck

Hope is a waking dream.               Aristotle

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.     Helen Keller

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.           Abraham Lincoln

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.               John Lennon

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.     Albert Einstein

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.  Thomas Jefferson

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.                Winston Churchill

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.                Maya Angelou

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.    Martin Luther King, Jr.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.               Abraham Lincoln

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.          Stendhal

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.        Benjamin Disraeli

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.  John F. Kennedy

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

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.       Abraham Lincoln

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.            Bruce Barton

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.    William Shakespeare

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.           Kurt Cobain

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.    Gilbert K. Chesterton

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.                Thomas Jefferson

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.               Thomas Jefferson

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.     Dalai Lama

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.                Warren Buffett

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.  Henry Ford

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.                Thomas Jefferson

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.         Vincent McNabb

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.         John F. Kennedy

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.                Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.    George Chakiris

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.         Eric Hoffer

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. B. C. Forbes

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.                Lewis B. Smedes

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.      Oscar Wilde

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.         Napoleon Hill

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.        Robert Fulghum

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.                Gillian Anderson

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.                George Washington

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.          Bill Cosby

I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.                Michael Jordan

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

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.                John Lennon

The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.              Basil Hume

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.            Edgar Allan Poe

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.           Elizabeth Edwards

A leader is a dealer in hope.        Napoleon Bonaparte

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.        Walt Disney

Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.    Bradley Whitford

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.                Walt Disney

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.   Vaclav Havel

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.’   Demetri Martin

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.       Nelson Mandela

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.             Barack Obama

While there’s life, there’s hope.                Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.  Elbert Hubbard

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.               David D. Burns

In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.            Rupert Murdoch

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.        Jane Austen

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.       Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.             Albert Camus

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.   Bill Cosby

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.                Edward de Bono

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.      Brad Henry

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.     Steve Jobs

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.      Baruch Spinoza

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.                Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.                Robert H. Schuller

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

I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.    Ernest Hemingway

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.       Lance Armstrong

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.                T. S. Eliot

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.       William S. Burroughs

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. Thomas Aquinas

To me, we’re marketing hope.   Joel Osteen

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

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.      Robert E. Lee

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.               Mitt Romney

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.              John Quincy Adams

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’     Demetri Martin

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.           Joel Osteen

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.              Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.    Hillary Clinton

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I’ll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.             Louis Farrakhan

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.              Rick Warren

I’ve seen the ticket, and I still can’t believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don’t hit the floor.               Judy Garland

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.        Thomas Sowell

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.                Mitt Romney

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.             Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.           Hillary Clinton

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it’s all very upfront. I can’t hide it. I’m also loyal and I hope I’m fun.          Nicole Kidman

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.          Corazon Aquino

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.              Joseph Addison

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.               Dwight D. Eisenhower

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.                Ogden Nash

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.    John Adams

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

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.      Billy Graham

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.       Niccolo Machiavelli

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.         Jack Layton

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

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.                Orison Swett Marden

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.               Dolly Parton

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.            Thomas Carlyle

Marriage is the death of hope.  Woody Allen

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t.      Rodney Dangerfield

Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.                Gore Vidal

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

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.         George Eliot

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.              Edmund Burke

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.                Henry Miller

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.             William Hazlitt

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.      Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.        Nikos Kazantzakis

I’m a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.            F. Scott Fitzgerald

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.       Epictetus

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.       Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.    Richard P. Feynman

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.   Thomas Carlyle

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.    Thomas Merton

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.  Ed Bradley

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

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.        Marco Rubio

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.                Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.                Rene Descartes

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.                George Eliot

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

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

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

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.     Malcolm Forbes

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.     Bryant H. McGill

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.        Cat Stevens

Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.    Jesse Jackson

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

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.  Epictetus

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?          Immanuel Kant

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.        Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.    Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.     Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I’m on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.         Jenny McCarthy

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

Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.          Will Durst

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.   Mattie Stepanek

Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.              Michelangelo

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.       E. M. Forster

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.                Calvin Coolidge

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.                John Buchan

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.               Yves Saint Laurent

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

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.           Andy Rooney

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.                Rush Limbaugh

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.       Anne Lamott

Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.           Vaclav Havel

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.            John Ruskin

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.                Mignon McLaughlin

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.     P. J. O’Rourke

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

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.             Niels Bohr

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

Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.      James Russell Lowell

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

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you’re really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That’s the way I’ve always lived my life.    Shania Twain

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

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.    Pope John Paul II

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.         Gustave Flaubert

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love. Robert H. Schuller

I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.               Ben Affleck

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.                Charles M. Schulz

You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.    Fran Lebowitz

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.     Jack Kerouac

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.                Tryon Edwards

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.   James Madison

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.   Richard M. Nixon

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.           Colin Powell

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.              Pearl S. Buck

The youth is the hope of our future.       Jose Rizal

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.               William Butler Yeats

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.               Stephen Hawking

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.        Chief Joseph

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.     Samuel Johnson

Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.                Paul Ryan

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.              April Winchell

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.               Salma Hayek

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.                Jim DeMint

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.             Brian Clough

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.  Samuel Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.            Samuel Johnson

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.  Desmond Tutu

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

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.         Jacques Yves Cousteau

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.             Frank Lloyd Wright

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.    William Cowper

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.    Vaclav Havel

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.    LeBron James

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

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.                Desmond Tutu

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.               E. M. Forster

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.              Robert Green Ingersoll

When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.      Paul Wellstone

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.        Janis Ian

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

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.   Algernon Charles Swinburne

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.          Jim Henson

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.       Lalu Prasad Yadav

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 travels through, nor quits us when we die.              Alexander Pope

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.                Desiderius Erasmus

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.      James Herriot

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

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.           Karl Rahner

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

Well, I’m like a drug addict, I’m always saying I’m going to stop, and then I don’t, what I’ve said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.       Stephen King

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.            Stephen King

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.         Jacques Yves Cousteau

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.              Jon Stewart

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

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.                Reinhold Niebuhr

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.     Stephen Jay Gould

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.    Jim Valvano

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.                Ahmed Ali

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

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.   John Kenneth Galbraith

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don’t do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I’ll benefit from it.              David Schwimmer

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.   Maynard James Keenan

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.               Thomas Huxley

It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.             Danny Boyle

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn’t intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.     E. O. Wilson

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.           George Lucas

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.      Elizabeth Edwards

Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.                Demi Lovato

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.                George Santayana

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.             John Ciardi

I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me. Conrad Black

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.              Stendhal

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.       Elvis Presley

All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.               Aaliyah

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.      William Hazlitt

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.       William Wordsworth

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.             Christopher Hitchens

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.       Paul Tillich

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.            Joseph Addison

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.  Anne Lamott

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Baltasar Gracian

I hope to die in the saddle seat.                Albert Ellis

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.       George W. Bush

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?              Immanuel Kant

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

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.     Claude Debussy

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.   David Brainerd

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.            Lady Gaga

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.                Oscar Hammerstein II

Hope is the denial of reality.       Margaret Weis

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for. Washington Irving

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.  Susanna Moodie

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.              Jerry Lewis

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.              Stanislav Grof

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.            Madeleine Albright

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.        Stanley Kubrick

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.          Eric Hoffer

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.                Josh Billings

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.               Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.      George W. Bush

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That’s what I want for my son.                Charlize Theron

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life. Sonia Sotomayor

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

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

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

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.                William Ralph Inge

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.               Percy Bysshe Shelley

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he’s dead.    Judith Viorst

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.            Dean Koontz

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.                Mahalia Jackson

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

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.              Maria Sharapova

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.          Mick Jagger

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting.         Charles Stanley

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don’t take counsel of your fears.          Thomas S. Monson

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

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.    Dave Matthews

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

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.               Roseanne Barr

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.               George Allen, Sr.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.         Sarah Ban Breathnach

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.            Margaret Atwood

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.    Yoshio Taniguchi

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.              Vaclav Havel

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.          Doug Coupland

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.                Jonathan Carroll

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.   Baltasar Gracian

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.          Clarence Darrow

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.                Christopher Hitchens

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.   Hodding Carter

Under Barack Obama, the only ‘Change’ is that ‘Hope’ has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they’re worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.               Marco Rubio

I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.          Madeleine Albright

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.  

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