Quotes About Hope

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Prospect is often better than possession.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.