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Quotes About Hope

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
~ Jane Austen
Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.
~ Jean-Antoine Houdon
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
~ John Adams
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
~ John Dryden
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
~ John Piper
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
~ Leon Bourgeois
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I spent five years in prison, a free man for the first time in my whole life.
~ Christian Hosoi
A man has a right to want to live.
~ Dalia Sofer
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
~ Daniel Webster
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
~ Desmond Tutu
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
~ Elie Wiesel
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
~ Franz Grillparzer
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
~ Garret Dillahunt
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
~ George Eliot
No man can give me any word but Wait.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
~ Paul Valery
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
~ Pliny the Elder
No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.
~ Oswald Chambers