"In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless. During the dark hours of this horrible war, entire nations were kept going by something intangible--hope! When warned that abject submission offered the only salvation against overwhelming power, hope showed the way to victory. Hope has become the secret weapon of the forces of liberation! Aggressors could not dominate the human mind. As long as hope remains, the spirit of man will never be crushed."

"As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!"

"Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness."

"Many are the strange chances of the world... and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."

"Spes fovet, et fore eras semper ait melius."

"While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none."

"Væ misero mihi! quanta de spe decidi."

"Ego spem pretio non emo."

"The mighty hopes that make us men."

"Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all, And every winter change to spring."

"We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope."

"Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources, if not without loss at all events without ruin; but its nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colours only when they are ruined; but so long as the discovery would enable them to guard against it, it is never found wanting. Let not this be the case with you, who are weak and hang on a single turn of the scale; nor be like the vulgar, who, abandoning such security as human means may still afford, when visible hopes fail them in extremity, turn to invisible, to prophecies and oracles, and other such inventions that delude men with hopes to their destruction."

"It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants."

"This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of Life, and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought."

"Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end."

"“What hope can a man have,” my father had once shouted at me, “if he has none of Heaven?” Even in 1910 he thought the world a vale of tears without relent. “The hope of enlightened life,” I had replied then."

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

"It is never right to consider that a man has been made happy by fate, until his life is absolutely finished, and he has ended his existence."

"Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics."

"Hope makes itself every day springs up from the tiniest places"

"But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love."

"To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates."

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

"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."

"Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope."

"Life doesn't end just because someone leaves."

"Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

"The miserable have no other medicine But only hope: I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die."

"Farewell The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell."

"Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair."

"Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt."

"Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."

"The sickening pang of hope deferr'd."

"Verzweifle keiner je, dem in der trübsten Nacht Der Hoffnung letzte Sterne schwinden."

"There are three lessons I would write, — Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one, But men, as man, thy brothers call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, — Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind."

"“The way you talk lacks hope.” “‘Hope,’” she said, spreading her papers out on the table. “Have I ever told you how much I dislike that word? Think of what it means, what it implies. You have hope when you’re outnumbered. You have hope when you lack options. Hope is always irrational, Uncle.”"

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

"Who in Life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land."

"Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better."

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love."

"Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven."

"In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope."

"Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium."

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

"Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight."