I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Paolo Bacigalupi
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages --- villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world.
Robert Moffat
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
William O. Douglas
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment
Arnold Hutschnecker
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Peter F. Drucker