quotations about hope
We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night,
Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth,
To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth;
But these go out and leave us with no light.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope, the magician, charms the distant prospect,
And fancy pictures all the world as good!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Youth"
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
MARIAN ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Fall of Atlantis
Hope never dies in the breast of man;
It may slumber and sleep for a while,
Then wakes up refreshed, all its troubles to scan,
And meets them half-way with a confident smile.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Company
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
VACLAV HAVEL
Disturbing the Peace
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of Hope
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
ANDRÉ GODIN
In Thought
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!
JEAN CALVIN
Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul
I plant a seed of Hope, and ere the tread
Of nimble-footed Day has run the hours,
The seed has grown a tree that woos the skies,
Its verdant branches starred with golden flowers.
LOUISE AYRES GARNETT
"The Tree of Hope"
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Beatrice Letters
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
ANNE LEMOTT
Bird by Bird
If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.
EARL PFEIFFER
Clash by Night
All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more,
Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes,
While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Immortality"
The greatest architect and the one most needed is Hope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit