Hope

Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, as opposed to the necessity of the probable.

— Moses Maimonides, Spanish Sephardic Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, astronomer, jurist, and physician who worked in Egypt and Morocco, c. 1135-1204

There never was night that had no morn.

— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English poet and novelist, 1826-1887

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

— Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

— Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and Civil Rights Activist, 1925-1968

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

— Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

— Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

— Unknown source

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

— Jose Joaquin Olmedo, President of Ecuador, 1780-1847

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

— Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

— John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963

A leader is a dealer in hope.

— Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.

— Harvey Milk, U.S. politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, 1930-1978

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

— Ouida [pseudonym for Maria Louise Rame] English novelist, 1838-1909

When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

— Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

— Unknown source

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

— Vauvenargues, French writer and moralist, 1715-1747

No hope, no action.

— Peter Levi, British poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, academic, and prolific reviewer and critic, 1931-2000

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

— William Sloane Coffin, U.S. Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006

Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.

— L.J. Cardinal Suenens, Belgian Catholic Cardinal (1904-1996

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.

— Unknown source

The miserable have no medicine but hope.

— William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

— Julia Dorr, U.S. author and poet, 1825-1913

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

— Tertullian, African Berber Christian author who has been called â€œthe founder of Western theologyâ€, 160 A.D.-220 A.D.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

— Baruch Spinoza, Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin who was one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, 1632-1677

I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.

— Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826

One should … be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

— Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian, 1771-1832

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, Hokkien, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976

Hope lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

— Unknown source

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

— John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

— Ambrose Bierce, U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914

No night but hath its morn.

— J.C.F. von Schiller, German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

— Unknown source

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

— Alexander Pope, English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

— the Bible

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

— Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973

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, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

— Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998

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