Woody Guthrie Quotes

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation.

One has to have hope. Without hope you can't get anywhere.

Everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man— Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed