Hope or Despair

Without Christ there is no hope. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where there's life, there's hope. - Theocritus

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

I hope my ship comes in before my dock rots. - Unknown

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

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

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. - Francois Rabelais

I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do. - Unknown

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

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

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

Our hope is as certain as Jesus's grave is empty. - Sam Allberry

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. - Alfred Adler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die.
Mormont: Nor life, I hope. - George R.R. Martin

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

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

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust. - Charles R Swindoll

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

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. - Victor Hugo

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

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. - Terry Brooks

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Tennyson

It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. - Paul L Dunbar

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

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. - Unknown

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? - Rose Kennedy

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins

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

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde

Figure out what you hope for. Live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. - Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang

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

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H Spurgeon

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

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

NASA's robot Curiosity landed on Mars. Early pictures show no signs of ESPN or beer. This makes it very clear that men are not from Mars. - Unknown

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg