HOPE QUOTES IV

quotations about hope

Hope quote

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To Be Blest.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man


We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

PATRIC SHADE

Habits of Hope


Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy.

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:12


Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris


At home or abroad, on land, on sea, in prosperity or in adversity, hope's beaming star ever lights us, sometimes feeble, but oftener bright; sometimes weak, but oftener strong. Hope is the murderer's cell, and with the shipwrecked mariner on the desert isle; in the palace, and in the cot; it is shining with surpassing splendour by the dying bed of the Christian, and flickering round the couch of the infidel. Hope met our first parents in Eden, and will be with the last man on earth. Hope is part of our immortality; we hope on, and we hope ever.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Hope", Short Essays


The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

DANIEL GOLEMAN

Working With Emotional Intelligence


Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

THALES

fragment


Blind hope faces a blank wall waiting for a door in it to open. Doors might be nearby, but blind hope keeps you from locating them.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark


A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from Tomorrow.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

ANN PATCHETT

State of Wonder

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To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e'en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Captivity

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Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today--with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, Jan. 3, 2008

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We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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He who has never hoped can never despair.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Caesar and Cleopatra

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Hope is a flatterer; but the most upright of parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


Every dead hope is a phantom that grimaces over its tomb.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The White Feet of the Morrow"


What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

WAYNE W. DYER

There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem


Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see--in the mind's eye--a path to a better future.

JEROME GROOPMAN

The Anatomy of Hope


Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

OUIDA

A Village Commune

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Conversations with Goethe