Quotes about hope
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“It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it—keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for, as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety and continues to give you hope, so surely you will still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back again after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1850s, Speech at Chicago (1858)

Men, God, Idea, Sense

“We also need to be encouragers to our friends. Some of them have hopes and dreams, yet although they've prayed and watched and waited, there's been no answer from above.”

William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

After seven tries, the rain was finally on its way.
Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 123

Dreams, Waiting

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

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

Universe, Happy, Hope

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

Pope John XXIII (1881–1963) 261st Pope of the Catholic Church

Fear, Dreams, Thinking, Motivational

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician

Fate, Thinking, Tree, Winter

“'The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' That's from Emerson, by the way. All I was hoping to do is stretch some goddamn minds.”

Carl Hiaasen book Squeeze Me

Epilogue
Novels, Squeeze Me (2020)

Way, Idea

“Hope disappears when you stop believing in yourself, it disappears when your thinking makes you crippled. it Disappears when you're not able to find a solution of your problems. It happens when you start feeling hopeless in front of your troubles.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Feeling, Problem, Thinking

“Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Quoted in Gert Jonkers, "Gore Vidal, the Fantastic Man," Butt, No. 20 (7 April 2007)
2000s

History, Past

“Peace is a path of hope, a path on which one advances through dialogue, reconciliation and conversion.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

On New Year, Pope Wishes the Faithful a 2020 of Peace, Voice of America, (1 January 2020)
2020s, 2020

Peace

“You're like the sun. You give me a new hope to live every day, like a new ray of sun. Your love infuses energy in me. Your shining face removes the darkness of my life and I wish that my life always shines like your smile. You are sunshine and you have become essential to my life.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Love, Life, Smile, Sun

“Another illustration. When for the first time I met Mister Clay, the other day in the cars, in front of us sat an old gentleman with an enormous wen upon his neck. Everybody would say the wen was a great evil, and would cause the man's death after a while. But you couldn't cut it out, for he'd bleed to death in a minute. But would you engraft the seeds of that wen on the necks of sound and healthy men? He must endure and be patient, hoping for possible relief. The wen represents slavery on the neck of this country. This only applies to those who think slavery is wrong. Those who think it right would consider the snake a jewel, and the wen an ornament.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Death, Men, Cars, Thinking

“In education dwells the seed of hope: hope for peace and justice, hope for beauty and goodness; hope for social harmony.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2021 <br class="br">Source: Cited in Pope Francis: Art creates brotherhood and friendship https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-12/pope-francis-art-creates-brotherhood-and-friendship.html in the Vatican News. (15 December 2021)

Education, Peace, Justice, Beauty

“Investing in education means helping children and young people to discover and appreciate the most important values and to have the courage to look to their future with hope.”

Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church

2020s, 2021

Children, People, Education, Courage

“Looking back on the long period of post-war peace, reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse, I earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never again be repeated.”

Naruhito (1960) Emperor of Japan since 2019

Source: "Japan marks 76th anniversary of WWII surrender with emperor expressing "deep remorse" over wartime atrocities" in Xinhua http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-08/15/c_1310128713.htm (15 August 2021)

War, Peace, Feeling, Past

“There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 133

Mountain, Star

“In every battle, we don't always win. Perhaps we are defeated more often than not. We are made to hurt and suffer. We are made to cry and mourn each defeat, but we must not stop there. Because tomorrow there will be another battle. As long as we still have hope we must believe that one day we will win the battle. What can defeat us is the weakness of our own soul. We are not winners if we are unable to overcome our own fears and worries.”

Titon Rahmawan

Fear, Soul, Suffering, Hurt

Titon Rahmawan

Fear, Soul, Suffering, Hurt

“What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Angels

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Forgiveness, Past

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

The houses are all gone under the sea.

The dancers are all gone under the hill.”

T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets

Source: Four Quartets

Wisdom, Housing, Sea

“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Parting

“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Variant: Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion".
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Love, Wisdom, Past

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”

Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) Japanese author

Source: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

Happiness, World

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

Brother Lawrence book The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

Love, Perseverance

“What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

Youth, Stupidity, World, Hurt

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Love, Men, Hate, Fear

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”

Alfred Lansing book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Source: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Way, Thinking

“While there's life, there's hope.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)

Life

“Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure

Marriage, Appearance

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Time

“Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Disappointment, Time, Night

“Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Dead

“There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening (1899)

Night

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Variant: Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter
Source: A Walk to Remember

Love, Life, Feeling

“You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme… For heavier things”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Books, Time, Perfection

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist

Love, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

Happiness

“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”

Stephen Jay Gould book An Urchin in the Storm

"The Quack Detector", p. 245
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)
Context: [A]s we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

People, Learning

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Variant: The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Source: The Bean Trees

Life

“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: 20th Century Ghosts

Love, World

“to hope was to expect”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Variant: To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Variant: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Forgiveness, Past

“I hate you! (Artemis)
Don’t keep saying that, Artie. It’s cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Hate

“Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn’t seen me naked?” I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone.

“I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

“During our lives… we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”

Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Failure, Fight

“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Love

“Parallel tough-guy nods."What now?" I asked, hoping to divert the two from actually beating their chests.”

Kathy Reichs Virals

Source: Virals

Guy

“Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Love

“I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Source: Because I'm Worth It

Feeling

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

World

“Hope doesn't mean anything…. Action's the only thing that counts.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Hidden

Source: Among the Hidden

“The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

“People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Death, People

“You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Fourth Comings

Thinking, Change, Time, Heart

“Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Love, Sex

“Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Understanding

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, Courage, Cry, Courageous

“Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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

Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Dreams, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

People, Feeling

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Time, Past

“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

Source: Without Feathers

“And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me.
And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me!
I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story.”

James Patterson book The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Source: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Cooking

“I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Love

“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Re: United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963); Box 11, President's Outgoing Executive Correspondence Series, White House Central Chronological File, Presidential Papers, Papers of John F. Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1963

Children, World, Future, Hope

“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”

Robert Ludlum book The Bourne Supremacy

Source: The Bourne Supremacy

Personality, Falseness