If You Have No Hope

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

Hope is a song in a weary throat. - Pauli Murray

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

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

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

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

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. - Christopher Reeve

Hope - is not a feeling; it is something you do. - Katherine Paterson

Love paid a price so hope could become a reality. - Susan Gaddis

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

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

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

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. - Christopher Walken

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. - Jack Handey

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

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

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still hope. - Pittacus Lore

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. - Charles the Bold

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

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

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

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

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

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

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown

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

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

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