Hope or Despair

Farming is a profession of hope. - Brian Brett

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

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

I was never crippled until I lost hope. - Nick Vujicic

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate. - Amanda Mosher

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

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

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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

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

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown

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

A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? - George Carlin

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

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

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias

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

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

When a man falls into his anecdotage, it is a sign for him to retire from the world. - Benjamin Disraeli

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

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

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

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

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter

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

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

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

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

If the sign on your heart says, "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere. - Susan Jeffers

He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

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

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

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 glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

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

Lookin' back all I can say about all the things he did for me is I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be. - Brad Paisley

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant

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

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe