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Hope Sayings by Samuel Johnson
- With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
- Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
- It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less…
- The triumph of hope over experience.
- When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to…
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor
- Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to…
- Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
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