Hope Quotes

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
--Benjamin Franklin

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible
and achieves the impossible.
--Anonymous

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling
you have isn't permanent.
--Jean Kerr

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
--Alexander Dumas

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be
answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last.
The spring rains will come again
--Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance:
A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.
--Charles D. Brodhead

While there's life, there's hope!
--Ancient Roman Saying

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear.
All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
--Dante Alighieri The Inferno

Hope has been and always will be safe. It's inside every one of us.
--Xena

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

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
--English Proverb

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 (1955-___) US novelist

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
--Unknown

Hope is a waking dream.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to
be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much
adversity we can overcome True hope responds to the real
world, to real life; it is an active effort
--Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to
Self-Fulfillment by Walter Anderson

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
--Samuel Johnson

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

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 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on
Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
--William Shakespeare King Richard

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate.
They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds,
above the storms, if you only let them.
--William James

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

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope;
and the one unchangeable certanity is that
nothing is certain or unchangeable.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery