Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking. – Thomas Sowell
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. – Mitt Romney
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Pliny the Elder
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. – Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. – Thomas Carlyle
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. – Ambrose Bierce
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. – William Hazlitt
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. – Epictetus
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. – Ed Bradley
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. – Rene Descartes
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. – Ambrose Bierce
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. – Malcolm Forbes
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. – Epictetus
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? – Immanuel Kant
