“Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.”
“There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.”
“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.”
“The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.”
“Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.”
“In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.”
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
“Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.”
“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.”
“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.”
“Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.”
“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.”
“Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.”
“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.”
“Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.”
“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”
“Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”
“The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.”
“Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.”