Hope Quotes

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Bertrand Russell

• Happiness

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

George Eliot

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Fear

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

Emily Dickinson

• Soul
• Words

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Mind

While there's life there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

George Eliot

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

• Dreams

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

Victor Hugo

• God

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anatole France

• Man
• Future

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

• Life

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

• Courage

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

• Desire

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

• Wisdom
• Words

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

• Change
• Fortune

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Gustav Mahler

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Democritus

• Beginning

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Thales

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Bernardo Bertolucci

• World
• Change

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

• Dreams

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

Andrea Bocelli

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Pierre Corneille