"Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."

"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good."

"Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest."

"Toutes choses, disoit un mot ancien, sont esperables à un homme, pendant qu'il vit."

"What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair."

"A man without hope is a man without fear."

"Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages."

"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."

"Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!"

"Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all."

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."

"Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

"So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair."

"Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away."

"And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone."

"We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion."

"Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope."

"The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone."

"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."

"One only hope my heart can cheer,— The hope to meet again."

"Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it."

"One's thoughts turn towards Hope."

"Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd."

"If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long"

"L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle est, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable."

"Hope is a timid thing, Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering; At least, such Hope as human life can bring."

"Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;— How many hearts have nourished a vain flame In silence and in secret, though they knew They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!"

"The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone."

"Vita dum superest, bene est."

"So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head."

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

"Hope destroys pleasure; …"

"Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"The triumph of hope over experience."

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

"A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems — you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself — and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself."

"In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums."

"It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times."

"Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn."

"When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor."

"Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don't you surrender. Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint. You must not surrender. You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified. And you hold on, and hold out. We must never surrender. America will get better and better."

"I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."

"When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work."

"I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

"Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free — truly free — to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins."

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

"Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος"

"Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone."

"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."