hope

"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."

"A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."

"You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too."

"I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed."

"There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory."

"Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white."

"We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done…."

"Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up."

"The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise."

"He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them."

"I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment."

"Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies."

"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."

"When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities."