HOPE QUOTES III

quotations about hope

Hope quote

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

Tags: Mignon McLaughlin


The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Usurper


What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

WAYNE W. DYER

There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem


The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

DANIEL GOLEMAN

Working With Emotional Intelligence


Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris


Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams
Of better days that are yet to be,
After glittering goal, that distant gleams,
Running and racing untiringly.
The worldly may grow old and young as it will,
But the Hope of man is Improvement still.
Hope bears him into life in her arms,
She flutters around the boy's young bloom,
The soul of youth with her magic warms,
Nor rests with age in the silent tomb;
For ends man his weary course at the grave,
There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

"Hope"


Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

THALES

fragment


The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009


The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

GERALD MASSEY

"Long Expected"


I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

ARTHUR MILLER

After the Fall

Tags: Arthur Miller


He who has never hoped can never despair.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Caesar and Cleopatra

Tags: George Bernard Shaw


There is always hope...only because it's the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet.

GALEN

Crusade


Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Hope is really just a variety of fear, all the more painful because it twitches a chance of escape in front of your nose as it slides by.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

PATRIC SHADE

Habits of Hope


Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up, and it will.

BIRDEE PRUITT

Hope Floats


Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark

Tags: Rebecca Solnit


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Human

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Hope is the shadow of faith.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought