Hope

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.
#. Epicurus

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

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
#. Robert H. Schuller

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

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

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
#. Desmond Tutu

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
#. Arthur Ashe

Rise Like Lions after Slumber
in unvanquishable number
and shake your chains to earth like dew
which in sleep have fallen on you
we are many they are few
we are many and they are few
#. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
#. George Weinberg

The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.
#. Terri Guillemets

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

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
#. Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
#. Benjamin Disraeli

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
#. Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
#. Tertullian

You will not have wings until you wish to fly….
And flying is a must if u wish to cover a long distance within a very short time.
#. onlybestquote

The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life.
#. Ana Jacob

All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.
#. Terri Guillemets

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
#. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
#. Marian Zimmer Bradley

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.
#. Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
#. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
#. Mark Twain, 1891

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
#. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
#. Author Unknown

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
#. Eric Bentley

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
#. Norman Cousins

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
#. Don Quixote

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

The oil of hope makes life’s machinery run smoothly.
#. James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher’s Stone, 1882

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
#. François VI de la Rochefoucault

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
#. Christopher Reeve

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
#. Robert G. Ingersoll

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
#. Titus Maccius Plautus

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. #. Vincent McNabb

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.
#. Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878
When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
#. Author Unknown

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing — but we all do and call it Hope.
#. Edgar Howe

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. #. Samuel Johnson

Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all….
#. Emily Dickinson, c.1861

It’s all one thing — both tend into one scope –
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one’s but smoke, the other is but wind.
#. Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, “Sonnet on Tobacco

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
#. S.A. Sachs

Tis a wreath of sunny flowers;
On the future’s brow it twines;
Culled in love’s own roseate bowers,
Fresh with sparkling dew it shines.
#. R.A.P., “Hope,” in Southern Literary Messenger, December 1840

Hope is a roving gypsy
With laughter on her tongue,
And the blue sky and sunshine
Alone, can keep her young;
And year by year she lingers
Under a budding tree…
#. Dora Read Goodale

Hope is the physician of each misery.
#. Irish Proverb

God sends the dawn
that we might see
the might-have-beens
that still might be.
#. Robert Brault
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
#. Maya Angelou

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
#. Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be?
Who knows, far out upon the central sea,
That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore
Has set behind us, and will rise before:
A past foretells a future…
#. Bayard Taylor, “First Evening”

Hope is a great perspective picture-painter, whose work appears dauby and unfinished when submitted to Reason’s close inspection.
#. James Lendall Basford

Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it’s there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby.
#. Terri Guillemets

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.
#. Anne Lamott

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

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
#. Ouida

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
#. Eric Hoffer

Hope is a strange invention –
A Patent of the Heart –
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out….
#. Emily Dickinson, c.1877

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
#. Pearl S. Buck

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
#. Robert Brault,

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
#. Matthew Prior

Hope is grief’s best music.
#. Author unknown

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
#. Baruch Spinoza

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
#. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack

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

Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have. #. Author unknown
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
#. Lin Yutang

Hope is the poor man’s bread.
#. Gary Herbert

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
#. Victor Hugo

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
#. Robert Ingersoll