quotations about hope
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
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Disturbing the Peace
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!
EMILY BRONTE
Hope
False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
JEROME GROOPMAN
The Anatomy of Hope
Hope is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
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"
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
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
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
Hope is not a strategy.
RICK PAGE
Hope Is Not a Strategy
For hope will cull a withered flower
And tune a harp with a broken string;
And hope will shed a glimmering ray
Of light on pleasure's ruined shrine.
For mouldering columns still look gay
When summer sunbeams o'er them shine.
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY
"Hopes and Fears"
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
It is better to hope than to mope!
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
The season of bereavement becomes the seed-time of hope.
HARRY GREY
Sorrow Not Without Hope
Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.
ERNEST HOLMES
This Thing Called You
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a spark of happiness or a single ray of hope?
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
fragment
One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims