Hope Quotes - Page 14

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

  Eric Bentley

  Cancer, Hands, Anticipation

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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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• 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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• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Expectations

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 95 (1733)

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Wisdom, Expectations

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

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• Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Youth, Deceived

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• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Dream, Reality

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.151

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• Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

  Arnold Bennett

  Media, Long, Enough

  The Title (1918) act 2

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• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Giving Up, Humorous

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

  John Ciardi

  Dad, Father, House

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Sadness, Learning, Doubt

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Expectations, Library

  'The Rambler' no. 106 (23 March 1751)

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Expectations, Lasts, Moments

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.70

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• No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

  Thomas Gray

  Father, Merit, Abode

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.

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• Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

  Martin Seligman

  Art, Limits, Causes

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Land, News

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• I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

  Burton Silverman

  Art, Bridges, World

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• Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Amusement, Tranquil

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.61

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Pain, Faces

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Life, May

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• He who has never hoped can never despair

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Expectations, Negativity

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

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• If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Fitness, Ambition

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