Famous Quotes

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

Samuel Smiles on Hope

More quotes about Hope

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

  Albert Einstein on Hope

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope

• "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

  Maya Angelou on Hope

• "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

  Dalai Lama on Hope

More quotes by Samuel Smiles

• "Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."

• "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."

• "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."

• "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

• "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."