Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin LutherHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis BaconFaith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat HanhThough I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David ThoreauWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantIn giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham LincolnThe human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma GandhiThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper LeeI use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
Mr. TIt was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
Harper LeeIt is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas CarlyleThe separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel CastroLook for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
C. S. LewisI always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.
Joel OsteenWouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin PowellMan’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiFour legs good, two legs bad.
George OrwellLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert EinsteinI believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
Joel OsteenFear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch SpinozaThe first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
Lana Del ReyThe hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Maya AngelouNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George WashingtonConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MenckenHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond TutuMy 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 AngelouI find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai LamaThis President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
Dan QuayleI just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel JohnsonYouth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas CarlyleI am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin DisraeliThe Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.
Billy GrahamThe future will be better tomorrow.
Dan QuayleWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James MadisonNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar WildeI have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle ObamaExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand RussellI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingTherefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth III’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey NewtonI don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.
Joel OsteenTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhen there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.
Lady GagaPassion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Che GuevaraHope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.
Joyce MeyerThe infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand RussellLot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.
Sunil ChhetriIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. FeynmanMan’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John RuskinEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverThe secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
George LucasA revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte