Hope Quotes
“If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.”
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.”
-- Harry Nilsson
“Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.”
-- Jay Leno
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”
-- Reinhold Niebuhr