Talk:Hope

Live in hope or Die in despair. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens

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• If you've destroyed a man's hope, you've destroyed the man.
  • John du Plessis

• Losing all hope is freedom.
  • Fight Club

• No life with desperateness, and no desperateness with life.
  • Arabic Proverb

• One who has health has hope, and one who has hope has everything.
  • Arabic proverb

• A leader is a dealer in hope.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

• Keep Hope Alive
  • Jesse Jackson

• You cannot live on Hope Alone.But without Hope,Life is not worth Living
  • Harvey Milk

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

• Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God.
  • Pindar

• Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

• Great hopes make great men.
  • Thomas Fuller

• Hope and fear are inseparable.
  • La Rochefoucauld

• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
  • Anne Lamott

• Hope dies last. (Or Hope is the last thing to be lost) (Lo ultimo que muere es la esperanza)
  • Spanish proverb

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
  • Vaclav Havel

• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
  • English proverb (Cf. Benjamin Disraeli above.)

• Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
  • The Shawshank Redemption

• Hope is hope for infinite Hope.
  • J.R.R. Tolkien

• Hope? Oh yes, there is hope — infinite hope. But not for us.
  • Franz Kafka

• Hope — it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
  • The Architect The Matrix Reloaded

• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
  • Charles Caleb Colton

• I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
  • Carl Sandburg

• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
  • Thomas Fuller

• If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith and we have hope, and we can work.
  • Jacques Cousteau

• It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts an opiate.
  • Eric Hoffer

• Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
  • Elie Weisel

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
  • Albert Einstein

• Light tomorrow with today.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
  • H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more of desire than judgement
  • William Penn

• Never give up, never surrender!
  • Galaxy Quest

• Remember Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
  • The Shawshank Redemption

• Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.
• It was close. The actual quote is: "ope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever beMan must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19322/19322-h/19322-h.htm

• The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
  • Winston Churchill

• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
  • Barbara Kingsolver

• There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
  • John Ruskin

• True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort
  • Walter Anderson ?

• We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
  • Martin Luther King

• We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy

• Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
  • Herbert Hoover

• Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
  • William James

• Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
  • Corrie ten Boom

• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torment of man.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

• Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.
  • Raistlin Majere, Dragonlance series, unidentified work/edition/page

• Hope seemed a respect which fatigue grants to the necessity of the world.
  • Deathspell Omega, Fas – Ite

• Hope is when we feel the pain that makes us try again
  • Chico Science

• Hope is the mother of fools.
  • Polish proverb

• People have hope because they do not see death behind them.
  • Tite Kubo

• Hope is the first step on a road to disapointment
  • Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War

• Hope is the leash of submission
  • Raoul Vaneigem

• The cure for despair is not hope. It's discovering what we want to do about something we care about.
  • Margaret Wheatley