Israel Zangwill Quotes

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Without hope we are lost.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.

Where you are now is not where you will always be. There are brighter days up ahead.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.