Hope Quotes - Page 27

• I live for those who love me,
  Whose hearts are kind and true;
  For the Heaven that smiles above me,
  And awaits my spirit too;
  For all human ties that bind me,
  For the task by God assigned me,
  For the bright hopes yet to find me,
  And the good that I can do.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Life, Heart, Ties

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• When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
  Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
  We shall live well--we shall live very well.

  Elinor Wylie

  Lying, Blue, Plums

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.18, Kent State University Press

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• Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

  Garrett Fort

  Stars, Lying, Crazy

  "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

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• To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

  Jose Bergamin

  Escaping, Despair, Age

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• In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Intellectual, Advantage

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Success, Motivation

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• Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  Aaron Carter

  Music, Spirit, Fierce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Men, Discovery, Years

  The Oxford History of the American People ch. 2 (1965)

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, People, History

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

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• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.  Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Teacher, Fall

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Men, Blood

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Life, Preparation, Way

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

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• No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

  John Ruskin

  Temptation, Determined, Honestly

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Children, Years, Bored

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyday is another chance to get things right.

  Lauryn Hill

  Everyday, Fresh Start, Another Chance

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• It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

  John Guare

  Yesterday, Littles, Tomorrow

  John Guare (1978). “Landscape of the Body”, Grove/Atlantic

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• We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Loss, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Rain, Sky, Punctuation Marks

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• Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Adventure, Hopeful

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• It is history that teaches us to hope.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Hopeful, Teach

  Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.

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• The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Sunshine, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.

  Susan Griffin

  Passion, Love Is, Thinking

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• Concern yourself not with what you tried
  and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Failure

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• Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Airy, Brides

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 3, l. 735

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• We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Running, Fashion, Children

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