Hope or Despair

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel

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

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

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

Life begins on the other side of despair. - Jean-Paul Sartre

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate. - Amanda Mosher

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

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

At first we hope too much, later on, not enough. - Unknown

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. - William Hazlitt

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

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

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. - Janine di Giovanni

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

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

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes

I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus

A nurse will always give us hope,
an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle I have hope for the human race. - H G Wells

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

The sign said "eight items or less." So I changed my name to Les. - Steven Wright

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that. - Archie Bunker

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

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped. - Unknown

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

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

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

I'm having difficulty getting the doctors around here to sign the appropriate form. - Spike Milligan

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. - Lois McMaster Bujold

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. - Amy Tan

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

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you're riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. - Bob Marley

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. - Joseph Addison

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

NASA's robot Curiosity landed on Mars. Early pictures show no signs of ESPN or beer. This makes it very clear that men are not from Mars. - Unknown

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

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