Quotes about hope page 16
“Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: The Life Of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 4
“Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: Essays and Aphorisms
“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
“I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 6: America the Beautiful
“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist
Source: Suicide and the Soul
E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…
Source: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
“I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.”
Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer
Source: Once Was Lost
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”
Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Variant: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Second Helpings
“But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
Source: Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”
Danielle Steel Five Days in Paris
Source: Five Days in Paris
“I'm an outsider by choice, she said, but I'm hoping that won't be my choice forever.”
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Trusting Soul
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Sherryl Woods (1944) American writer
Source: An O'Brien Family Christmas
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: My Unfair Godmother
“Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.”
Ian Fleming book From Russia, with Love
Source: From Russia With Love
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
“That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
Charles Bukowski book Factotum
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 29
Context: That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man. I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.