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Quotes About Hope

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.
~ Toni Morrison
Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."
~ William Gurnall
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
~ Walker Percy
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
~ Ira Gershwin
I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
~ Mel Smith
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.
~ Vaclav Havel
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
~ Ben Kingsley
When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
You better hope you're not alone.
~ Jack Johnson
These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
~ Libba Bray
Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.
~ Lisa Unger
Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.
~ Sylvia Earle
I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come."
~ Jessica Stern
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.
~ Samuel Johnson
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.
~ Marina Warner
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
~ William Gurnall
Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.
~ Sepp Blatter
I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.
~ Christine Keeler
If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.
~ Ron Dellums
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.
~ Pope Francis