„Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.“
— Padre Pio Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887 - 1968
Quotes about hope
A collection of quotes on the topic of hope.
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„The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.“
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
On voluntary euthanasia as quoted in People's Daily Online (14 June 2006) http://english.people.com.cn/200606/14/eng20060614_273839.html
„I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.“
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
Marmee March to Jo, in Ch. 8 : Jo Meets Apollyon
Little Women (1868)
Context: You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
„We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.“
— Pelagius British monk 360 - 420
Letter to Demetrias
„If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.“
— Andrew Carnegie American businessman and philanthropist 1835 - 1919
„When the war started in Abyssinia all Negro nationalists looked with hope to Haile Selassie. They spoke for him, they prayed for him, they sung for him, they did everything to hold up his hands, as Aaron did for Moses; but whilst the Negro peoples of the world were praying for the success of Abyssinia this little Emperor was undermining the fabric of his own kingdom by playing the fool with white men, having them advising him[, ] having them telling him what to do, how to surrender, how to call off the successful thrusts of his [Race] against the Italian invaders. Yes, they were telling him how to prepare his flight, and like an imbecilic child he followed every advice and then ultimately ran away from his country to England, leaving his people to be massacred by the Italians, and leaving the serious white world to laugh at every Negro and repeat the charge and snare - "he is incompetent," "we told you so." Indeed Haile Selassie has proved the incompetence of the Negro for political authority, but thank God there are Negroes who realise that Haile Selassie did not represent the truest qualities of the Negro race. How could he, when he wanted to play white? How could he, when he surrounded himself with white influence? How could he, when in a modern world, and in a progressive civilization, he preferred a slave State of black men than a free democratic country where the black citizens could rise to the same opportunities as white citizens in their democracies?“
— Marcus Garvey Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur 1887 - 1940
The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor in The Blackman, April, 1937.
„Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.“
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
„The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.“
— Mikhail Bulgakov, book The Master and Margarita
Book Two in 'By Candlelight'
The Master and Margarita (1967)
„Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease. My privacy has always been very special to me and I am famous for my lack of interviews. Please understand this policy will continue.“
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
Statement to the press (23 November 1991), the day before his death, as quoted at The Biography Channel http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/338:294/1/Freddie_Mercury.htm.
„You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.“
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, p. 85
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
„You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.“
— Jane Austen, book Persuasion
Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
Source: Persuasion
„Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.“
— Thales ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician -624 - -547 BC
A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
„I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still…
Iris, blue each spring“
— Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694
Source: Japanese Haiku
„I only hope that people enjoy viewing the film I’ve enjoyed making. I don’t know whether the film we’ve made is commercial or not, whether it’s good or not, but I do know that we’ve made it honestly and that we've enjoyed making it. I just hope it has turned out to be the film we had set out to make.“
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
From interview with Komal Nahta
„Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. “
— John Wayne American film actor 1907 - 1979