hope Quotes (57)

“He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.”

“Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.”

“Rainbows apologize for angry skies.”

“Death, only, renders hope futile.”

“If God created shadows, it was to better emphasize the light.”

“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.”

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

“Hope is necessary in every condition.”

“Great hopes make great men.”

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

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair.”

“To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.”

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“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'.”

“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

“The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst."”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

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

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“Though the sun is gone, I have a light.”

“Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

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

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

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”

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

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”

“Hope is only the love of life.”

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

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“Have hope in obstacles, and press forward.”

“Even if the world ends tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today.”

“No misfortune lasts forever.”

“As long as the sun shines, hope shines in the human heart.”

“Where there is hope, the seeds of happiness sprout.”

“Hope is a strong courage and a new will.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”