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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

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.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

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

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.

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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

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

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.