If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
- Henry Rollins
Hope will never be silent.
- Harvey Milk
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
- Michael Novak
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
- Evan Esar
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
- Ivan Illich
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Thomas Hardy
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- Francois Rabelais
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
- Mason Cooley
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
- Ed Bradley
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
- Antonio Porchia
I always believe things are going to work out.
- Francoise Sagan
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
- Lillian Hellman
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
- Janis Ian
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
- Studs Terkel
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
- Maya Angelou
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
- Arnold H. Glasow
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
- Norman Cousins
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
- Elie Wiesel
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
- Calvin Coolidge
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
- Arthur Ashe
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
- Terence
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
- Herman Cain
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
- Bryant H. McGill
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
- Joel Osteen
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
- Jim Henson
I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
- Louis C. K.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
- Vaclav Havel
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
- Jonas Salk
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Bertrand Russell
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
- T. S. Eliot
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Will Durant
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
- Ivan Illich
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
- Elizabeth Edwards
But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
- John James Audubon
Hope is a risk that must be run.
- Georges Bernanos
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
- Abraham Lincoln
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
- Vaclav Havel
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Hope is a talent like any other.
- Storm Jameson
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
I'm just so happy, and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.
- Jennifer Aniston
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- Maya Angelou
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
- Erma Bombeck
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
- Thomas Carlyle
I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
- Britney Spears
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Stendhal
The youth is the hope of our future.
- Jose Rizal
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
- Brad Henry
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
- Richard M. DeVos
I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.
- Ellen Ochoa
Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.
- Linda Thompson
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
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hope not to define myself by suffering.
- Frank Ocean
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
- Bradley Whitford
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
- Bernard Williams
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
- Oscar Wilde
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
- Marie Curie
Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.
- Greta Thunburg
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
- Jack Layton
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
- Patricia Cornwell
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Without hope we are lost.
- Mahmoud Darwish
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
- Lionel Messi
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
- Raymond Williams
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
- Walt Disney
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
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
- Lou Holtz
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
- Nelson Mandela
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
- Tena Desae
My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
- Charles Spurgeon
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert Kennedy
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
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.
- John Piper
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Lewis B. Smedes
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.
- Michelle Monaghan
I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
- J. Cole
At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.
- J. D. Vance