Hope or Despair

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope is a very unruly emotion. - Gloria Steinem

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! - Dante Alighieri

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver

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

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

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

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? - Nicholas Sparks

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. - Janine di Giovanni

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

In the factory we make cosmetics, but in my stores we sell hope. - Charles Revson

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

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

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

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman

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

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

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

The sign said "eight items or less." So I changed my name to Les. - Steven Wright

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

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

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped. - Unknown

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

Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope. - Robert Frost

Hope is only a beginning; it's not a substitute for action, only a basis for it. - Rebecca Solnit

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N Harris

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. - Edward S Ame

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

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

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

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

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T S Eliot

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. - Vincent McNabb

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold

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

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

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. - Terrence Howard

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

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

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. - Bill Vaughan

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

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

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

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

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope. - David Archuleta

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

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