Hope

"Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?"

"Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn"

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

"The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre — To be redeemed from fire by fire."

"L'espoir ne fait pas de poussière."

"He that lives upon Hope will die fasting."

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

"People cannot live without hope; this is one of the statements I can defend without any reservations."

"Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope."

"The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of men. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every man."

"While there is life there's hope (he cried,) Then why such haste?—so groan'd and died."

"Bei so grosser Gefahr kommt die leichteste Hoffnung in Anschlag."

"Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen Ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln."

"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray."

"In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs—and God has given my share— I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down."

"The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise."

"Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so."

"You need hope to get you going, but then by taking action, you generate more hope. It’s a circular thing."

"It’s an aspect of our survival. […] It’s not a skill. It’s something more innate, more profound. […] It is a human survival trait and without it we perish."

"So why do I feel hopeful? Partly, because I’m obstinate. I just won’t give in. But it’s partly also because we cannot accurately predict what the future might bring. We simply can’t. No one can know how it will all turn out."

"Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope."

"I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all."

"No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best] … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine."

"Hope of consciousness is strength Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease."

"Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast."

"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."

"Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand."

"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that."

"History says don't hope / On this side of the grave. / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme."

"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"When we open up about our emotional challenges, admitting we are not perfect, we give others permission to share their struggles. Together we realize there is hope and we do not have to suffer alone."