Hope or Despair

We can hope while we cope. - Unknown

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

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

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

While the heart beats, hope lingers. - Alison Croggon

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

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

Where there's life, there's hope. - Theocritus

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver

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

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

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. - Charles M Schulz

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

Christ showed us hope transformed into sacrificial love. - Chuck Colson

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

A round wife and a full barn are the signs of good success. - Amish Saying

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. - Jack Handey

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

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

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. - Arnold H Glasgow

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

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

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

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

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

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

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. - Holy Bible

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N Harris

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

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

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

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

Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me. - John Wooden

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring. - JRR Tolkien

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. - Unknown

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

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

It's a sign of age if you feel like the morning after the night before and you haven't been anywhere. - Unknown

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

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

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

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

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

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. - Harriet Martineau

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. - Elie Wiesel

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou

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

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

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 glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

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

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

Lookin' back all I can say about all the things he did for me is I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be. - Brad Paisley

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope. - David Archuleta

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

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

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