Hope Quotes - Page 11

• Hope is the denial of reality.

  Margaret Weis

  Reality, Denial, Denial Of Reality

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Dwarven Depths: Lost Chronicles, Volume One”, p.22, Wizards of the Coast

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• Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

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• But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

  Edgar Guest

  Work Out, Spite, Stills

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Clay, Cold, Worms

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.575

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• It is to hope, though hope were lost.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Losing, Lost Hope, Lost

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.74

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• Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Science, Men, Doe

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Past, Night, Joy

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• Grass grows at last above all graves.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Grief, Lasts, Grass

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Memories, Littles

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Palaces, Poor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, 4th Of July, Humor

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1758) preface

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• Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Expectations, Humans

  Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Truth

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• Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Inspirational, Faith, Kindness

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• So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed
  Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Dark, Spirit

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
  Are children of one mother, even Love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Children, Youth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Tragedy

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.106, M.E. Sharpe

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• Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Nurse, Desire, Young

  Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1

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• You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Stars, Enthusiasm For Life

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• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  E. W. Howe

  Aging, Well Known, Should

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Happiness, Being Happy

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Freedom, Understanding

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Stars, Work

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