quotations about hope
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
MARIAN ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Fall of Atlantis
Those that hope little cannot grow much.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Hope of the Gospel
Hope is, indeed, a deceitful enchantress; but she sheds a sweet radiance on the stream of life, and never exerts her magic except to our advantage. We seldom attain what she beckons us to pursue; but her deceptions resemble those which the dying husbandman in the fable practiced upon his sons, who, by telling them of a hidden mass of wealth, which he had buried in a secret place in his vineyard, led them so sedulously to delve the ground, and turn up the earth about the roots of the vines, that they found, in deed, a treasure, though not in gold, in wine.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Company
We can have hope even while maintaining a negative--or sometimes simply realistic--attitude. For instance, if you're dying of cancer, you can still hope for pain relief. If you have a difficult-to-treat cancer, you can still hope for new treatments.
LORI HOPE
Help Me Live
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Children of Hurin
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
ANNE LEMOTT
Bird by Bird
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope never dies in the breast of man;
It may slumber and sleep for a while,
Then wakes up refreshed, all its troubles to scan,
And meets them half-way with a confident smile.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
Hope, the magician, charms the distant prospect,
And fancy pictures all the world as good!
C. B. LANGSTON
"Youth"
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of Hope
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.
EARL PFEIFFER
Clash by Night
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!
JEAN CALVIN
Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
I plant a seed of Hope, and ere the tread
Of nimble-footed Day has run the hours,
The seed has grown a tree that woos the skies,
Its verdant branches starred with golden flowers.
LOUISE AYRES GARNETT
"The Tree of Hope"
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
EMIL CIORAN
The Temptation to Exist
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Beatrice Letters