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Hope Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward…
- In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten…
- In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
- Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
- Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
- Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
- Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
- There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Hope Quotes
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile… — Arthur Ashe
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that… — Margaret Atwood