HOPE QUOTES VII

quotations about hope

In hopelessness there is always hope.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.

EARL PFEIFFER

Clash by Night


That which obstructs hope often increases it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.

EPICTETUS

fragment


Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

PAULO FREIRE

Pedagogy of Hope


Better hope deferred than none.

SAMUEL BECKETT

Company

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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch


In somewhat the same way as reasonable belief is to be distinguished from superstition, so is reasonable hope ("hope that maketh not ashamed") to be distinguished from that which is vain and illusory. It is also true that in somewhat the same way as the strength of the belief furnishes a very effective evidence for the reasonableness of the belief to the man who holds it, so does the assurance of hoping give much additional testimony to the reasonableness of the hope for the mind that entertains it. In both cases, a certain value, which is something more than purely "subjective," cannot easily be denied to this support of truth in a form that is primarily emotional. It is more reasonable to believe what one can honestly believe with a strong feeling of confidence in its "objective" truthfulness. It is more reasonable to hope what one can honestly hope with a large measure of firm assurance. Nor is this measure of emotional evidence to be esteemed as of value to those only who store it in their own bosoms. Beliefs and hopes that are kept ever warm and vital in the bosom of humanity, by being near to its heart and source of vital life-currents, are lawfully as well as actually most well nourished and most vigorous.

GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD

What May I hope?


Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Work Without Hope

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Hope is delicate suffering.

AMIRI BARAKA

Cold


The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.

ANDRÉ GODIN

In Thought


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.

ANNE LEMOTT

Bird by Bird


False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Children of Hurin

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We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

JEAN CALVIN

Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul


Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

JEROME GROOPMAN

The Anatomy of Hope


I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.

BILL CLINTON

speech at Democratic National Convention, August 29, 1996

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While there is life there is hope--and while there is hope there is life.

E. E. HOLMES

Joyful Through Hope


Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

EMIL CIORAN

The Temptation to Exist


The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

GEORGE GISSING

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft