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Quotes About Hope

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
~ Barack Obama
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
~ Martin Luther
The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.
~ Franz von Papen
I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
~ Burton Silverman
Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.
~ Sri Chinmoy
How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?
~ Jonathan Falwell
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
~ Edward Gibbon
The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.
~ Charles Adams
Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.
~ Nancy Astor
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 dreadsul than its extinction.
~ Samuel Johnson
To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
~ Samuel Johnson
Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
~ Gerald Massey
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.
~ Nelson Mandela
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The church is in the hope business.
~ John Ortberg
Wherever there are birds, there is hope.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
~ Gustav Mahler
I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
~ Barack Obama
So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.
~ John Keats
If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon