If You Have No Hope

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

Hope is the dream of the waking man. - French Proverb

He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

Who darns nothing, need hope for nothing. - Johann von Schiller

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud

At first we hope too much, later on, not enough. - Unknown

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

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. - Ogden Nash

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

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

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

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

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

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

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. - Robin Sharma

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan

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

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. - Stephen Ambrose

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes ... keep hope alive. - Jesse Jackson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. - Wyclef Jean

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop. - Steve Yzerman