Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. W. B. Yeats

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.Albert Einstein

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.Abraham Cowley

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.Martin Luther

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.Norman Cousin

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.Carl Sandburg

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.Samuel Johnson

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.John F. Kennedy

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.Bertrand Russell

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.Harvey Milk

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No hope, no action.Peter Levi

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Emil Brunner

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

W. B. Yeats

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.Jacques Cousteau

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Lin Yutang

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

Samuel Johnson

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

Katherine Patterson

True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

John F. Kennedy

Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Martin Marty

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Thales

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 Lamott

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Wiesel

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Erik H. Erikson

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

Henri J. M. Nouwen

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon 1

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

William James

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery