Hope

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."

"A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time."

"“It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that’ll keep them going forever.”"

"For hope is but the dream of those that wake!"

"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."

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"“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.”"

"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."

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

"The sickening pang of hope deferr'd."

"Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears."

"Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"“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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The mighty hopes that make us men."

"Ego spem pretio non emo."

"Væ misero mihi! quanta de spe decidi."

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

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

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

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

"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!"