939 private quotes tagged hope

“I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.” — Joel Osteen

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“TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” — Sharon Stone

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“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.” — Luc de Clapiers

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“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.” — Kevin Smith

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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.” — Ovid

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“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” — Epictetus

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“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson

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“I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.” — Peter Cushing

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“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.” — Jonas Salk

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“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.” — Yoshio Taniguchi

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“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.” — Thomas Hardy

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“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.” — William J. Clinton

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“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” — Pliny the Elder

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“War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.” — Anwar Sadat

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“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.” — Rene Descartes

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“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?” — Immanuel Kant

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“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” — E. M. Forster

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“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” — Emily Dickinson

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“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” — John Buchan

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“Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.” — David D. Burns

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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

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