All Quotes

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.
‐‐ Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
‐‐ Jack Layton

Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
‐‐ Maximillian Degenerez

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. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
‐‐ Lu Xun

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?
‐‐ Diane Sawyer

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope E. L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
‐‐ Bret Easton Ellis

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
‐‐ Emanuel Cleaver

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
‐‐ Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
‐‐ Charles Stanley

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
‐‐ John Berger

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a moral choice.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
‐‐ Karl A. Menninger

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
‐‐ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a risk that must be run.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Hope is a talent like any other.
‐‐ Storm Jameson

Hope is a very thin diet.
‐‐ Thomas Shadwell

Hope is a very unruly emotion.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Hope is a waking dream.
‐‐ Aristotle

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
‐‐ Matthew Prior

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.
‐‐ Concha Buika

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
‐‐ George Savile

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
‐‐ Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
‐‐ Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
‐‐ Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
‐‐ Lin Yutang

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.
‐‐ Morley

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
‐‐ John Berger

Hope is not a matter of age.
‐‐ Abbe Pierre

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
‐‐ Vaclav Havel

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk