"“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.”"

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"“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.”"

"Nam multa præter spem scio multis bona evenisse, At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos."

"Even after all that, each and every being here believe, that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail. The experience knows that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long."

"Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now."

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

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

"But Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?"

"Now, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

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

"I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

"[W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart.… You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts."

"Only by working together can we preserve those institutions of family and community, rights and responsibilities, law and self-government that is the hallmark of this nation. For, it turns out, we do not persevere alone. Our character is not found in isolation. Hope does not arise by putting our fellow man down; it is found by lifting others up."

"The absence of hope can rot a society from within."

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulus to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it — so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."

"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."

"Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest."

"Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be."

"With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope."

"A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"And tho't that the light-house look't lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean."

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

"Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy."

"The mighty hopes that make us men."

"Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."