Hope Quotes - Page 13

• True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

  Francis Chan

  Faith, Religious, Mean

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.97, David C Cook

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• Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

  Robert Orben

  Baseball, Football, Hockey

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• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Feelings, World

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• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Goal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Fear, Farewell, Evil

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Frustration, Extinction, Should

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.322

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• The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
  Still, still on hope relies;
  And every pang that rends the heart
  Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Heart, Expectations, Stills

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.120

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Dark, Science, Noon

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• Behold, we know not anything;
  I can but trust that good shall fall
  At last-far off-at last, to all,
  And every winter change to spring.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spring, Fall, Winter

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Believe, Stills

  Young India, March 23, 1924.

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• OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pride, Envy, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• Worse than despair,
  Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Despair, Bitterness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.1114, JHU Press

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• The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

  Alfred Bunn

  Heart, Weight, Woe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Still desiring, we live without hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Without Hope, Stills

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song IV, 42, 1321.

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• Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
  Less pleasing when possest;
  The tear forgot as soon as shed,
  The sunshine of the breast.

  Thomas Gray

  Sunshine, Gay, Tears

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.16

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• Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
  Having naught else but Hope.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Race, Promise, Wavering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.243, Wildside Press LLC

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• Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
  The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

  Gerald Massey

  Kings, Crowns, Born

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.138

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• For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

  Plautus

  Good Things, Disappointed, Expected

  "Rudens" by Plautus, II. 3. 69; Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 71, 211 BC.

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• Hope dead lives nevermore,
  No, not in heaven.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heaven, Nevermore

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.83, Routledge

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• Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stars, Night, Despair

  "Oberon" by Friedrich Schiller, I. 27,

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• I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Water, Stronger

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• It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Water, Worry

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• When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

  Sean O'Casey

  Healing, Dark, Hands

  Sean O'Casey (1984). “The complete plays of Sean O&Casey. 3. Purple dust. Red roses for me. Hall of healing”, London : Macmillan

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• If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

  Eric Bentley

  Cancer, Hands, Anticipation

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• To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Anxiety, Phrases

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