quotations about hope
If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.
EARL PFEIFFER
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Clash by Night
One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of Hope
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night,
Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth,
To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth;
But these go out and leave us with no light.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"
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
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Those that hope little cannot grow much.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Hope of the Gospel
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
Hope is delicate suffering.
AMIRI BARAKA
Cold
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
BILL CLINTON
speech at Democratic National Convention, August 29, 1996
While there is life there is hope--and while there is hope there is life.
E. E. HOLMES
Joyful Through Hope
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Children of Hurin
The greatest architect and the one most needed is Hope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
"Maternal Dream"
Hope is carefully to be distinguished, on the one hand from optimism (which springs from prediction of what the future will bring), and on the other hand from wishful thinking (which is unconstrained by the probabilities of what that future might bring). Hope is based neither on certainty, as if it were simply extrapolation of the present, nor on fantasy, as if its object bore only a tenuous relation to the present. Once again, we encounter the eschatological dialectic of continuity and discontinuity. In relation to hope, failure to respect this balance can lead either to despair that anything will ever change for the better, or to violent imaginings of apocalyptic destruction in which the future can be attained only by the annihilation of the past.
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
The God of Hope and the End of the World
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Work Without Hope
That which obstructs hope often increases it.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims