Hope or Despair

We can hope while we cope. - Unknown

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The great gift of Easter is hope. - Basil C Hume

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

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

I was never crippled until I lost hope. - Nick Vujicic

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

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

In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. - Baltasar Gracian

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

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. - Francois Rabelais

I hope karma slaps you in the face before I do. - Unknown

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

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid

How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? - Nicholas Sparks

There is not love of life without despair about life. - Albert Camus

Second Marriage: The triumph of hope over experience. - Samuel Johnson

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall

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

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

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

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins

Keep on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone. - Rukh Khan

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

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

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die.
Mormont: Nor life, I hope. - George R.R. Martin

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. - Billy Graham

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. - Barbara Walters

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return. - Albert Camus

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus

Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. - Unknown

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. - Manel Loureiro

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

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

Dreams are what give us purpose, because without dreams we have no hope, and without hope we have no purpose. - Unknown

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. - Abraham Lincoln

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. - Orison Swett Marden

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. - Martin Luther King Jr.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. - Arthur Ashe

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

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when al is dire and bleak, there is always hope. - Pittacus Lore

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

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. - Gail Carson Levine

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

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. - Wyclef Jean