When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
Hope Quotes
Hope, Fortunes cheating Lottery! Where for one prize an hundred blanks there be ; Fond Archer, Hope, who tak’st thy aim so far, That still or short, or wide thine arrows are !
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.
If a person doesn’t have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all. (Remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001)
Hope is not a way out. It is a way through.
Hope is a waking dream.
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.
