Quotations about Hope

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. Kahlil Gibran


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison


Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Alexander Pope


When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, / and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that/ which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran


The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve


Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus


Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe


Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson


Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson


Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott


The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure


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. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley


You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~Author Unknown


Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain


Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles


When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown


If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley


The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy


Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins


Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote


It's all one thing - both tend into one scope -
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one's but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"


Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson


Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb


Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746


Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida


It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer


To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck


Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior


Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown


There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza


He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack


When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen


Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg


Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown


Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian


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 is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert


Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must have hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. John F. Kennedy

We'd never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. Emily Dickinson

Were it not for hope the heart would break. Scottish Proverb

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A Beard

When one door of happiness closes, another opens. Helen Keller

Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do. Helen Keller

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Unknown Author

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. John F. Kennedy

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. Norman Vincent Peale

A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon I

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale

Entertain great hopes. Robert Frost