Hope Quotes

Hope is only the love of life.

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. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

I can endure my own despair,
but not another's hope.

Never lose hope.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.