Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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

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.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

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

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

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

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

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

I always entertain great hopes.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

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

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

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

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

The youth is the hope of our future.

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

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.