939 private quotes tagged hope

“I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.” — Dalai Lama

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“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.” — Herman Melville

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“It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.” — Maggie Smith

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie

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“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.” — James Madison

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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein

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“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.” — William Butler Yeats

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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.” — Steve Jobs

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“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.” — Warren Buffett

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“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” — George Washington

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“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.” — Albert Camus

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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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

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“Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — George Eliot

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“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther

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“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” — Charles M. Schulz

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