Quotes About Hope

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

People don't cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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

The miserable have no medicine but hope.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

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