Quotes about Hope

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

"Hope 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 the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

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

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest."

"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

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

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

"I always entertain great hopes."

"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."

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

"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

"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."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

"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."

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."

"Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love."

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"Hope will never be silent."