Hope Quotes

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
Emily Dickenson

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

"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will."
Josh Hartnett

"Hope is the best part of our riches."
Christian Nevell Bovee

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."
Goethe

"But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out."
Edgar Guest, from Things Work Out

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."
George Washington Carver

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

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
Martin Luther King, Jr

"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."
Thomas Fuller

"He who has never hoped can never despair."
George Bernard Shaw

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen

"There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim."
Napoleon Hill

"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."
French Proverb

"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

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
Charles F. Kettering

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive.
If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."
Erik H. Erikson

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
Samuel Ullman

As long as we have hope,
we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by.
Hong Kong Proverb

"There are no hopeless situations,
there are only men who have grown helpless about them."
Clare Boothe Luce

"Choices. We make hundreds of choices in our lives. Other people make hundreds of choices. We might wish and hope that we can change other peoples' choices so they can avoid potential problems be that drug abuse, alcohol, relationships, parenting and on and on."
Byron Pulsifer, from Choices

"Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."
Barbara Kingsolver

"What is hope?
Hope is wishing for a thing to come true;
faith is believing that it will come true."
Norman Vincent Peale

"The Grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Allan K. Chalmers

"I got nothing that I asked for--but everything I had hoped for,
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
Author Unknown, from I Asked

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

Hope is the dream of a waking man."
Diogenes

"When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better."
Pauline R. Kezer

"Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all seems lost. Accepting what you cannot change doesn't mean you have given up on hope. It just means you have to focus your hope on more humanly tangible and attainable goals."
Julie Donner Andersen, from What My Widowed Husband Has Taught Me

"Hope is a good breakfast, but a poor supper."
American Proverb

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
Henry Ford

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
Barbara Kingsolver

"Never let go of hope - dream, take action, and get that transfer to live the life you wish."
Catherine Pulsifer

"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."
Anne Lamott

"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."
Emil Brunner

"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it."
George Weinberg

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
Helen Keller

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance."
Author Unknown, from Dear Bertha

"We live by admiration, hope and love."
William Wordsworth

"Believe in the incredible power of the human mind. Of doing something that makes a difference. Of working hard. Of laughing and hoping."
Author Unknown, from Dream Big

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau

"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

"There are no rules for architecture for a castle in the clouds."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
Thich Nhat Hanh

"We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it."
Phillips Brooks

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

"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible."
William Sloan Coffin

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