H. G. Wells Quotes

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

The future is limitless.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

I feel like the sky's the limit, and anything could happen.

I want you to know that your future is always bright, no matter what your age.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

Everything is a possibility. I believe we're put on this earth to think big and dream big.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

The sky is no longer the limit.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!

Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.