Hope or Despair

Hope is a walking dream. - Aristotle

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Farming is a profession of hope. - Brian Brett

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Hope is passion for what is possible. - Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Who darns nothing, need hope for nothing. - Johann von Schiller

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. - Norman Cousins

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

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

The great hope of society is individual character. - William Ellery Channing

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - Steven Wright

I hope the guy who invented AutoCorrect burns in Hello! - Unknown

A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. - Robert Brault

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

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. - Ravi Zacharias

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. - Howard Thurman

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

When a man falls into his anecdotage, it is a sign for him to retire from the world. - Benjamin Disraeli

Hope is only a beginning; it's not a substitute for action, only a basis for it. - Rebecca Solnit

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

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. - Mother Teresa

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller

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

He who labors diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. - Menander

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. - Toba Beta

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

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

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. - Steve Maraboli

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

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

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Bible

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living. - Unknown

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou

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

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins

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

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken