939 private quotes tagged hope

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

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

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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” — Anne Frank

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“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Marriage is the death of hope.” — Woody Allen

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“Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” — Aristotle

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” — Thomas Carlyle

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