Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripedes

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
Richard John Neuhaus

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
Stephan Jenkins

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.
John Astin

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Greil Marcus

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.
Vladimir Putin

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
Victor Francis Hess

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
Chris Frantz