Hope Quotes and Quotations
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
- A. P. Herbert
It is a long lane that has no turning.
- Old saying
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
- Eric Hoffer
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
- Thornton Wilder
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
- La Rochefoucauld
One need not hope in order to undertake; nor succeed in order to persevere.
- William the Silent
Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
Hope is the poor man's bread.
- George Herbert
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.
- Alexander Pope
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
- Martin Luther
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
- Satya Sai Baba
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
- William F. Lynch
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
- Norman Cousins
Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.
- Robert Schuller
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
- Leston L. Havens
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
- Carl Sandburg
'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all.
- Emily Dickinson
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
- Harriet Martineau
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
- William Hazlitt
Wonder ... music heard in the heart, is voiceless.
- Rosemary Dobson
To all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- Bible
Everybody lives for something better to come.
- Anonymous
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- Samuel Johnson
At first we hope too much; later on, not enough.
- Joseph Roux
Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
- Jose Joaquin Olmedo
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
- John F. Kennedy
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
- Charles Sawyer
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Tom Bodett
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
- Samuel Johnson
Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller
Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
- LeRoy Douglas
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
- Harvey Milk
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton
It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
- Helen Keller
We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
- Mother Teresa
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida
And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.
- Bible
Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope.
- John Armstrong
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
- Bernie S. Siegel
We must have hope or starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
- Pearl S. Buck
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
- Hal Lindsey
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
- Pearl S. Buck
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
- Italian proverb
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope.
- Bible
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
- Anonymous
My faith is important. I have nothing without it.
- Kathy Ireland
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
- Sydney Smith
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
- Vauvenargues
Hope is the parent of faith.
- C. A. Bartol
No hope, no action.
- Peter Levi
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
- Thomas Fuller
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- William Sloane Coffin
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
- John Armstrong
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
- Anonymous
Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
- Jeremy Collier
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Eric Hoffer
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
- Pliny the Elder
Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle
Hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior
Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
- L. J. Cardinal Suenens
Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.
- Anonymous
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
- Anonymous
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
- William Shakespeare
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
- Johann von Goethe
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
- Emil Brunner
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
- Julian of Norwich
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
- Jacques Cousteau
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.
- Mary Todd Lincoln
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
- Orison Swett Marden
"Wait'll next year!" is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
- Robert Orben
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
- Robert Burton
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
- Julia Dorr
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Vauvenargues
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian
All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
- Alexandre Dumas
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
- Vincent NcNabb
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
- John Milton
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Baruch Spinoza
I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
- Charles L. Allen
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
- George Weinberg
Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.
- Gilbert M. Beeken
Never despair.
- Horace
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
- A. J. Cronin
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
- Bertrand Russell
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang
Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."
- Anonymous
While there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.
- O. Carl Simonton
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
- John F. Kennedy
Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Gary Herbert
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
- Michel de Montaigne
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Samuel Johnson
Hope is a risk that must be run.
- Georges Bernanos
Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- Thomas Hobbes
Hope is a satisfaction unto itself, and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated.
- Dr. Fred O. Henker
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
- Ambrose Bierce
To hope is to enjoy.
- Jacques Delille
Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.
- Paul Moon James
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
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 a light diet, but very stimulating.
- Honore de Balzac
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
- G. K. Chesterton
Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life.
- Henry L. Stimson
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
- Pauli Murray
Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
- Katherine Paterson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, emits a lighter ray.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Grass grows at last above all graves.
- Julia Dorr
The happy ending is our national belief.
- Mary McCarthy
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- Alexander Pope
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
- Petronius
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
- William Shakespeare
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
- Euripides
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.
- Hafez
Faith, hope, and charity-if we had more of the first two, we'd need less of the last.
- Anonymous
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
- O. Carl Simonton
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- Gloria Steinem
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
- Orison Swett Marden
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
- Louis L'Amour
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous
I always entertain great hopes.
- Robert Frost
To hope is not to demand.
- Anonymous
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
- Jesse Jackson
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
- Daniel Berrigan
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
- Martin Marty
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
- Nancy Thayer
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
- Jonathan Swift
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
- Dorothea Brande
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
We live on the leash of our senses.
- Diane Ackerman
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
- Stevie Wonder
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
- Ross Parmenter
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
- Konrad Adenauer
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
- Anonymous
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Margaret Atwood
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.
- Sheila Ballantyne
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
- Solomon
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
- Bob Kail
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
- Dorothea Brande
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
- Joyce Carol Oates
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
- Cynthia Ozick
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
- Adelaide Proctor
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth."
- Dane Rudhyar
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.
- Charleszetta Waddles
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
- Cicero
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
- Dante Alighieri
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- George Eliot
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
- English proverb
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on," and leads us thus to the grave.
- Mme. de Maintenon
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
- Alexander Pope
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
- Proverbs
Who against hope believed in hope.
- Romans
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
- Walter Scott
Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Thales
Prisoners of hope.
- Bible