What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson on hope
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. Paul Ryan on hope
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for. April Winchell on hope
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. Salma Hayek on hope
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. Jim DeMint on hope
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. Brian Clough on hope
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson on hope
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson on hope
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu on hope
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. James A. Baldwin on hope
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau on hope
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright on hope
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper on hope
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Vaclav Havel on hope
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. LeBron James on hope
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Grandma Moses on hope
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Desmond Tutu on hope
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster on hope
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. Paul Wellstone on hope