Quotations are the fundamental distillation of a writer’s life and thinking as recorded in words and phrases for posterity. Through them the reader is afforded the unique opportunity to share in the thoughts, the life and the experiences of the writer. In a special way, they offer the reader a window into the mind of the author and hopefully an inducement to read further and learn more about the author and the story he relates.


On a wider scale, they are, as William Feather wrote, “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages preserved into perpetuity“, and as such they are available for the enrichment and enhancement of humanity, regardless of age, sex, race, educational or economic status. They are indeed, as the Talmud states, “food for the famished”.

The collection of quotations presented in this blog, have been chosen by me because of their special impact upon me. They have been published so that you too, may experience the joy I have had over the years reading them and getting to know the authors.


I trust that you will come to know the feeling of deep satisfaction possible from reading them, searching out the author and meditating upon their meaning and their impact on your life.

Monday, April 7, 2008

HOPE

While there's Life, there's Hope .......Cicero

Once you choose Hope, anything’s possible. ……. .Christopher Reeve

Hope is Faith holding out its hand in the dark. …….George Iles

Hope is like a road in the country.
It was never a road until many people walked on it,
then the road comes into existence. ......Lin Yu Tang

The miserable have no other medicine, only Hope. ……….William Shakespeare

He that lives upon Hope will die fasting. ………Benjamin Franklin

When you take Hope from the heart of man;
You make him a Beast of Prey .....Ouida

Learn from yesterday,
Live for today,
Hope for tomorrow. …Albert Einstein

There is no Hope unmingled with Fear,
and no Fear unmingled with Hope. ………Baruch Spinoza


To travel Hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ……Robert Louis Stevenson

He who does not Hope to win, has already lost. …..Jose Joaquin Olmedo

Hope is the last thing that dies in man. ……Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness. …..Alfred Nobel

He who has health, has Hope;
And he who has Hope has everything. ……Arabian Proverb

To eat bread without Hope is still slowly to starve to death. ….Pearl S. Buck

Hope never abandons you;
..You abandon it. ….George Weinburg

What strength do I have, that I should still Hope?
What prospects, that I should be patient? ……Job 6:8

Hope is a waking Dream …..Aristotle

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. ……Mahmoud Darwish

When the world says, “Give up”;
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time” ……Author Unknown

A prime function of a leader is to keep Hope alive. …… John William Gardner

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well;
But the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
…….Vaclav Havel

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success;
For who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. ……Samuel Smiles

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