The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.