If You Have No Hope

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

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

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

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

In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. - Norman Cousins

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

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

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

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

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

Where there is no future before a people, there is no hope. - Edward Wilmot Blyden

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

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. - Emil Brunner

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. - Thomas Fuller

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

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. - Albert Camus

Hold on to a ray of hope, and a promise of future... and follow your dreams. - Unknown

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope

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

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude. - Zig Ziglar

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

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

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. - Manel Loureiro

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

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. - Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

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

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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

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

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer