Hope or Despair

Hope is a song in a weary throat. - Pauli Murray

Hope is the dream of the waking man. - French Proverb

An old man in a house is a good sign. - Benjamin Franklin

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

Don't hope for success. Work for it. - Unknown

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. - Donald Trump

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior

A spotless house is a sign of a misspent life. - Unknown

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. - Princess Leia

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Sir Francis Bacon

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie. - Lou D. Phillips

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Albert Camus

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

Hold on to a ray of hope, and a promise of future... and follow your dreams. - Unknown

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. - Joseph Addison

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. - Suzanne Necker

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. - Louise Bogan

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. - Woody Allen

Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope. - Robert Frost

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude. - Zig Ziglar

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. - Charles the Bold

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. - Jack Nicholson

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for. - Thomas Chalmers

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be really tired. - Steven Wright

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. - Terrence Howard

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes ... keep hope alive. - Jesse Jackson

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. - Bill Vaughan

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

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes. - Michael Grant

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe