Quotes About Hope

Here and there, on the trees, some leaves remain. And I often stand deep in thought before them. I contemplate a leaf and attach my hope to it. When the wind plays with the leaf, I tremble in every limb. And if it should fall, alas, my hope falls with it. - Schubert

I always behave--I insist upon behaving, whatever I am told and whatever my own discouragements may be, as if love someday might be fulfilled, as if the Sovereign Good were possible

In reality, it is unimportant that I have no likelihood of being really fulfilled (I am quite willing for this to be the case). Only the will to fulfillment shines, indestructible, before me.

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope;

Motivation is in fact the most important result of student-engaged assessment—unless students find reason and inspiration to care about learning and have hope that they can improve, excellence and high achievement will remain the domain of a select group.

Washington and other founders entertained the fanciful hope that America would be spared the bane of political parties, which they called "factions" and associated with parochial self-interest.

As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents for his children—perhaps the symbolic nadir of his life.

his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature.

FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, Abraham Lincoln recognized the pivotal role of Kentucky, a centrally located buffer state between North and South. "I hope to have God on my side," he admonished colleagues, "but I must have Kentucky.

Frederick Douglass, who had entertained hopes for the Haitian post, graciously conceded defeat. "Your appointment," he told Bassett, "is a grand achievement for yourself and for our whole people.

Hamilton dreaded parties as "the most fatal disease" of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.

It is the food of my hopes, the object of my wishes, the only enjoyment of my life - Alexander Hamilton

Such a time never came.

What God had taken away, it seems, could never be perfectly restored.

Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy

Perhaps the generation that will genuinely transform the Arab world has not yet arrived.

You're not a realist, she says. You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

The first day of the rest of my life.

The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Reacher

The line between Hope and Despair was exactly that: a line, in the road

pity the man who gets what he wants. And it's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.