I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

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

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

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

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

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